Open Access Policy

Horizontes Empresariales is a diamond open access journal. All its content is freely available immediately upon publication, without any embargo period, at no cost to authors or readers, and without requiring prior registration.

Anyone may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors and the original source.

The journal does not charge submission fees, article processing charges (APCs), or publication fees. Its operations are funded entirely by the Faculty of Business Sciences of the University of Bío-Bío.

This policy adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and to the principle that knowledge generated through public funding should be publicly available.

License

Articles published in Horizontes Empresariales are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license allows third parties to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author or authors and to Horizontes Empresariales, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

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Copyright

Authors retain unrestricted copyright to their works and grant Horizontes Empresariales the right of first publication.

Authors may deposit the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject-specific repositories, or on their personal websites, and may freely distribute them, provided that the original publication in this journal is always acknowledged.

Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions to reproduce third-party copyrighted material (images, tables, photographs) and must attach these permissions at the time of submission.