Vijay, Devi; Nair, Vivek G. - In: Journal of business ethics : JBE 179 (2022) 2, pp. 315-337
This study examines how meritocracy as a collective social imaginary promoting social justice and fairness reproduces class and caste inequalities and fosters ethical violence. We interrogate discourse of merit in the narratives of the professional-managerial class-in-making at an Indian...