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Publications

Volumes

  • Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (forthcoming 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.

Chapters 

  • 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, forthcoming 2024).
  • Raluca Grosescu, “Corporate Accountability and Transnational Activism in Guatemala” in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (forthcoming 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.), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (forthcoming Springer, 2025).
  • Andru Chiorean, “Global Advocacy Networks, Corporate Accountability, and the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights” in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (forthcoming Springer, 2025).
  • Victoria Basualdo, “Trade Unions and Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Transnational and Intersectoral Alliances” in Raluca Grosescu and John Dale (eds.), Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: Civil Society and Transnational Action (forthcoming Springer, 2025).

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

 

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