Guilty or innocent? Comments from internet users about white-collar crime

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze comments from Internet users posted in news about white-collar crime found in the national electronic press. We focused our analysis on reports about a specific type of whitecollar crime, slave labor, with the objective of identifying the conceptions surrounding the subject based on a dynamic inter-textual analysis woven in its production. As a result, we observe discourse, speech and ideologies imbedded in the analyzed comments, indicating the importance of understanding inter-textual production about corporate action. © Revista de Administração de Empresas.