Publications

Volumes

Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Springer, 2025). This edited volume is the first collection to critically explore the role, limitations, and internal fragmentation of social activism for corporate accountability across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe: from civil and criminal litigations, efforts to prohibit and punish business misconduct through national and international legislation, to boycotts, political protests and memorialization projects. By adopting an actor-focused perspective and examining their national and transnational forms of activism, the collection provides an innovative perspective across three main themes: Civil society and social movements as key drivers of corporate accountability efforts; The fragmentation of the global corporate accountability movement across ontological, ideological, regional and professional lines; The Janus-faced paradigm of transnational activism for corporate accountability.
Raluca Grosescu, John G. Dale, Henry P. Rammelt (eds.), Just Economics? Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability and Democratizing the Economy (Routledge, 2026). This volume offers the first critical perspective on how different business entities –from multinational corporations, to cooperatives, economic solidarity networks and Indigenous enterprises – envisage corporate accountability for human and ecological rights and how these visions connect to ideas and processes of democratizing the economy. By taking an actor-focused approach and bringing together interdisciplinary cases studies spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, historical periods from 1945 to the present, and different industries, the collection examines a wide range of business reactions to social and judicial critiques, as well as the manifold business attempts to weaken international and national accountability processes, or foster progressive frameworks of social equality and human and environmental rights. Just Economics broadens the conversation on corporate responsibility by exploring how accountability efforts intersect with wider struggles for economic justice and democracy, nature’s rights and ecological regeneration. Our accounts retrace business responses that range from total resistance to partial compliance to active engagement with democratic economic models that progressively redefine human rights and seek to create a more just, equitable, and ecologically flourishing world.

Articles

Henry Rammelt and Marta Kołczyńska, Donor Dependency, Embeddedness and Organizational Structure of Civil Society: An Analysis of a Global Sample of Actors Active in the Field of Corporate Accountability (Global Networks, July 2025, Volume 25, Issue 3).
Henry Rammelt, Civil society active in corporate accountability dataset (Data in brief, December 2025, Volume 63).
Victoria Basualdo, Edson Teles, Carla Osmo, Magdalena Garcés, Formas de judicialización de la participación empresarial en la represión durante las dictaduras en Argentina, Brasil y Chile ( Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales, October 2025, Núm. Especial).

Chapters

Raluca Grosescu, John Dale, “Introduction: Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses. Civil Society and Transnational Action” in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Springer, 2025).
Andru Chiorean, “A World Where There Are Many Worlds.’ Fragmentation of Civil Society Advocacy for a UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights“ in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Springer, 2025).
Henry Rammelt, “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability: Visions, Divisions, and Convergences of a Global Cause” in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Springer, 2025).
Raluca Grosescu, “Values and Limitations of Transnational Activism for Corporate Accountability in post-Civil War Guatemala” in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Springer, 2025).
Victoria Basualdo, “Trade Unions and Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Transnational and Intersectoral Alliances” in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Springer, 2025).
Victoria Basualdo, “Historia, Memoria, Arte y Justicia: experiencias de comunicación y vinculación científica y tecnológica de investigaciones sobre responsabilidad empresarial en la represión dictatorial en Argentina y el Cono Sur” in Gelsom Rozentino de Almeida, Maria Aparecida da Silva Cabral and Rafael Vaz da Motta Brandão (eds.), 60 Anos do golpe de 1964 e a ditadura no Brasil: Reflexões sobre passado e presente e novas agendas de pesquisa (Curitiba, Brasil: Editora CRV, 2025).
Victoria Basualdo, Pedro Henrique Pereira Campos and Rafael Vaz Da Motta Brandao, “Responsabilidade empresarial em violações de direitos humanos nas ditaduras do Brasil e da Argentina” in Ana Paula Barcelos, Rafael Vaz Da Motta Brandao, Leda Agnes Simoes and Patricia Fogelman (eds.), Conexões Brasil-Argentina: pontes e intercâmbios a partir da história (Rio de Janeiro, Mauad X, 2024).

Data

Henry Rammelt, “Civil Society Active in Corporate Accountability Dataset”, Mendeley Data, V1, 2024. The present dataset is the first one to provide detailed information on civil society organizations engaged in the emerging global cause of corporate accountability. The data covers both structural/organizational information (such as organizational features, number of employees, etc.) and information pertaining to the more subjective dimensions of activities (such as aims, values, and blame attribution), and allows for systematic and cross-national analyses.

From our previous research on the topic

Raluca Grosescu, “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for International Crimes in Argentina & Colombia”, Global Society, 33 (3) 2019.
Victoria Basualdo, Hartmut Berghoff and Marcelo Bucheli (eds.), “Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America. A Transnational History of Profits and Repression”, (Palgrave, 2021).