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This paper can be seen as a continuous of that by \textit{W. J. Davis}, \textit{T. Figiel}, \textit{W. B. Johnson} and \textit{A. Pełcynski} [J. Funct. Anal. 17, 311-327 (1974; Zbl 0306.46020)]. Among the new results obtained we notice the following two: a) If \(T\) is a compact linear operator from a Banach space \(X\) into a Banach space \(Z\), then there is a reflexive separable Banach space \(L\), with no copies of \(\ell_p\) (for any \(p\geq 1\)), and two compact linear operators \(T_1: X\to L\) and \(T_2:L\to Z\) such that \(T= T_2\circ T_1\). b) There exist separable reflexive Banach spaces \(Y\), without the approximation property, such that, for every closed subspace \(V\) of \(Y\) and every positive integers \(m\), \({\mathcal L}({^mV})\) and \({\mathcal P}({^mV})\) are reflexive. Here \({\mathcal L}({^mV})\) denotes the space of all continuous \(m\)-linear functionals on \(V^m\) and \({\mathcal P}({^mV})\) denotes the space of all continuous \(m\)-homogeneous polynomials on \(V\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00093].