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

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.

• 1. Introduction: Just Economics? Corporate Power and the Contested Politics of Accountability 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 3. Public and Legal Corporate Defense when Accused of Complicity in War Crimes: The Lundin Oil Case 4. A Law and Political Economy Perspective on Corporate Power and Extractivism: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation 5. Corporate Power and the Limits of Political Consumerism: Avoiding Accountability, Resisting Economic Democracy 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 7. Multinational Corporations, History, Memory and Accountability: The Cases of Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen in Historical Perspective 8. The Transparency Paradox in Corporate Compliance with Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: “To Disclose or not to Disclose, that is the Question” 9. Dutch Business Perspectives on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: “Cowboy Companies and Companies that Give a Damn” 10. Corporate Strategies Within a Self-Regulatory Field: Playing the Game or Gaming the System? Part 3: Alternative Economic Models and Corporate Accountability 11. Alaska Native Corporations, Ecological Limits, and the Democratization of the Economy in Bristol Bay 12. Democratizing Digital Futures: Community-Led Initiatives as Models of Corporate Accountability in the Digital Economy 13. Agrarian Social Movements and the Challenge to Corporate Power in Food and Agriculture Systems in Southern Africa: Reclaiming Accountability and Building Alternatives 14. Pathways to Energy Democracy in Romania: Struggles of Prosumers and Energy Communities in a Centralized System