Inimigos públicos: crimes corporativos e necrocorporações

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Cíntia Rodrigues de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/10752
• topic: Necrocorporation; Corporate crimes; Dark side; Necrocorporação; Crimes corporativos; Lado sombrio; Administração de empresas; Indústria química - Brasil; Crime comercial; Crime contra o meio ambiente; Crime - Aspectos sociológicos; Empresas multinacionais

Corporations are present everywhere and in almost every aspect of our lives, however, they can be dangerous to society, carrying out actions with negative impacts on consumers, workers, the environment and communities. In this thesis, we launched our eye on the dark side of corporations, exploring two corporate crimes committed in Brazil for two transnational corporations in the chemical industry, an industry predominated by large corporations operating in the form of oligopolies, within an industry to produce highly strategic inputs to production of most consumer goods. Our goal is to understand the corporate crimes beyond the functionalist perspective prevalent in the literature on the subject. To this end, we conducted a qualitative research based on critical perspective, focusing on two cases that occurred for over four decades in Brazil. To gather empirical data, interviewed former workers and employees of corporations protagonists of crimes, former residents of the community affected by the crime and experts, such as lawyers and health professionals who were involved in the cases. The interviews were kind of narrative, having been recorded and later transcribed for analysis. Besides the interviews, we gathered several documents on cases such as press, technical reports, judgments and sentences. We analyze the empirical material seeking to recognize that corporate crime occurred as an extension of the organizations and their way to organize, and not as unfortunate or unintended side effects. As main results, we develop the concepts of ‘necrocorporation’ and corporate crimes against life. Our analysis was extended on the joints engendered by corporations, the production of death, and the power, consent and resistance. In both cases examined, the crimes were committed in the pursuit of corporate objectives, causing the deaths and illnesses, as well as other irreversible damage to the environment and the community. Our results point to the need for a shift in thinking about the relationships between governments, corporations and society, starting with the dissolution of this model of business organization.