The article addresses how societal inequalities shape market arrangements. While business scholars developed important work about the interplay of organizations and societal economic inequalities, less has been said about the embeddedness of markets in unequal social structures. We argue that this issue may be addressed by cross-fertilizing the sociological approach of Bourdieu and the Strategic Action Fields perspective. To demonstrate our view, we assessed the extreme case of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling markets in Brazil, conducting a qualitative study based on the precepts of abductive analysis and using data from different secondary sources, interviews, and participant observation. We verified the existence of correspondences between the power of strategic action fields and the positions the individuals controlling them occupy in what Bourdieu calls the social space and show how these differences enable inter field connections that tend to reproduce social hierarchies.

该文章探讨了社会不平等如何影响市场安排。尽管商业学者在组织与社会经济不平等之间的相互作用方面进行了重要的研究，但关于市场在不平等的社会结构中的内在嵌入却很少有人说。我们认为，可以通过对布迪厄的社会学方法和《战略行动领域》的观点进行交叉研究来解决这个问题。为了证明我们的观点，我们评估了巴西聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯（PET）回收市场的极端情况，并根据诱发分析的原理并使用来自不同二级来源，访谈和参与者观察的数据进行了定性研究。