State-corporate crimes and human rights violations: an essay on the symbiotic relationship between states and corporations

Abstract

In this essay, we seek to expand the understanding of state-corporate crimes that violate human rights by approximating the literature on state-corporate crime with the field of organizational studies. We argue that corporate crimes that violate human rights are produced and reproduced with the state’s participation in the governance gaps established by globalization in a symbiotic relationship that enhances their normalization. Our argument advances toward unveiling the problem as a configuration resulting from a deliberately organized and historically constituted articulation based on power relations, which aims to guarantee a social order centered on maintaining capitalist interests in which the exploration of life, death, and violence are normalized.