Just Economics? Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability and Democratizing the Economy

1. Introduction: Just Economics? Corporate Power and the Contested Politics of Accountability

Raluca Grosescu, John G. Dale, Henry P. Rammelt

Part 1: Corporate Resistance to Accountability and Economic Democratization

2. Big Business Associations and the Resistance to a Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights

Andru Chiorean and Raluca Grosescu

3. Public and Legal Corporate Defense when Accused of Complicity in War Crimes: The Lundin Oil Case

Isabel Schoultz

4. A Law and Political Economy Perspective on Corporate Power and Extractivism: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

Begüm Kilimcioğlu

5. Corporate Power and the Limits of Political Consumerism: Avoiding Accountability, Resisting Economic Democracy

Henry P. Rammelt

Part 2: Toward Partial Compliance: When, How, and Why “Big Business” Engages with Corporate Accountability and Due Diligence

6. Forced Labor, Memory, and World War II Reparations in Contemporary East Asia: Settling Scores for Corporate Crimes

Timothy Webster

7. Multinational Corporations, History, Memory and Accountability: The Cases of Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen in Historical Perspective

Victoria Basualdo

8. The Transparency Paradox in Corporate Compliance with Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: “To Disclose or not to Disclose, that is the Question”

Caroline Omari Lichuma

9. Dutch Business Perspectives on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: “Cowboy Companies and Companies that Give a Damn”

Annika van Baar and Marthe Heringa

10. Corporate Strategies Within a Self-Regulatory Field: Playing the Game or Gaming the System?

Elin Jönsson, Shai Mulinari and Isabel Schoultz

Part 3: Alternative Economic Models and Corporate Accountability

11. Alaska Native Corporations, Ecological Limits, and the Democratization of the Economy in Bristol Bay

John G. Dale

12. Democratizing Digital Futures: Community-Led Initiatives as Models of Corporate Accountability in the Digital Economy

Dhruv Deepak

13. Agrarian Social Movements and the Challenge to Corporate Power in Food and Agriculture Systems in Southern Africa: Reclaiming Accountability and Building Alternatives

Boaventura Monjane

14. Pathways to Energy Democracy in Romania: Struggles of Prosumers and Energy Communities in a Centralized System

Andrei Crăciun

Biography

Raluca Grosescu is a Lecturer in Politics at the National University of Political Science and Administrative Studies, Romania.

John G. Dale is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Movement Engaged Research Hub at the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University, USA.

Henry P. Rammelt is an Associate Lecturer at the National University of Political Science and Administrative Studies, Romania.