The critical environmental justice (CEJ) framework contends that inequalities are sustained through intersecting social categories, multi-scalarity, the perceived expendability of marginalized populations, and state-vested power. While this approach offers new pathways for environmental justice research, it overlooks the role of firms, suggesting a departure from long-standing political-economic theories, such as the treadmill of production (ToP), which elevate the importance of producers. In focusing on firms, we ask: how do firms operationalize diverse social forces to produce environmental injustice? What organizational logics sustain these inequalities? To understand the firm-level dynamics shaping treadmill acceleration and environmental injustice, we utilize two concepts—social embeddedness and managerial authority—from economic sociology research on firms. The former refers to the social and non-economic factors that guide economic decision-making, whereas the latter refers to the power that reinforces worksite hierarchies. This theoretical paper argues that social embeddedness and managerial authority interact within firms to produce an organizational logic that sustains environmental injustice and ecological disorganization. We draw from historical and contemporary evidence on sugarcane plantations in Latin America and the Caribbean, with cases ranging from the colonial period to the present day. By bringing economic sociological concepts to bear on the CEJ and ToP frameworks, we advance debates on how firm-level dynamics shape environmental inequalities.

关键的环境正义（CEJ）框架主张，不平等是通过相交的社会类别，多尺度性，边缘化人口的可感知支出能力和国家拥有的权力来维持的。尽管这种方法为环境正义研究提供了新的途径，但它忽略了公司的作用，表明与长期的政治经济理论（例如生产的跑步机（ToP））背道而驰，生产者的重要性得到了提升。在关注企业时，我们会问：企业如何运作各种社会力量以产生环境不公？哪些组织逻辑支持这些不平等现象？为了了解影响跑步机加速和环境不公的公司动态，我们采用了两个概念：社会包容性和社会包容性。管理权限-来自对企业的经济社会学研究。前者是指指导经济决策的社会和非经济因素，而后者是指增强工作场所层次结构的力量。该理论论文认为，社会嵌入性和管理权在企业内部相互作用，产生了维持环境不公正和生态组织混乱的组织逻辑。我们从拉丁美洲和加勒比地区甘蔗种植园的历史和当代证据中汲取经验，案例涉及殖民时期到今天。通过将经济社会学概念纳入CEJ和ToP框架，我们推动了关于企业层面的动力学如何形成环境不平等的辩论。