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The hidden side of business anti-crisis personnel management. Social inequalities and power asymmetries in large corporations: a documentary sociological study
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Social inequalities and their consequent power asymmetries that exist in all societies between the elite and the rest of the common people constitute, even today in the 21st century, a central problem for the critical social sciences. Considering this scientific and social background, this research consists of explaining, sociologically, the hidden side of anti-crisis business management, from a critical reading of social inequalities and power asymmetries in large corporations. For the satisfactory achievement of this objective, a hermeneutic and documentary methodology based on the compilation of academic sources of proven scientific value was used. Among the most relevant ideas of the conclusions, it is shown that, in its scientific project, critical and counter-hegemonic sociology must dismantle the “institutional myths” (efficiency and meritocracy) that legitimize corporate inequality, proposing alternative qualitative indicators of economic value, which include, on equal terms, labor welfare and community sustainability.
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