Praktiken der Verantwortungszuschreibung: Transnational Rule-Making and the PolitTransnationale Regelsetzung und politische Autorität privater Unternehmen

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Authors

  • Aletta Mondre
  • Holger Niemann
  • Christian Scheper
  • Cornelia Ulbert
The article discusses practices of attributing responsibility as a source of the political authority of transnational enterprises. We highlight how private enterprises use processes of attribution as a source of power and legitimacy, thus producing collectively binding trans national regulations. We illustrate our argument with reference to environmental protection in the context of deep-sea mining and corporate transparency in the field of human rights. Both cases illustrate that social dynamics (re-)constitutethe reference object as well as the reference subject of responsibility in line with corporate logics of action; such re-interpretations create political authority of private enterprises.
Translated title of the contributionPractices of Attributing Responsibility: Transnational Rule-Making and the Political Authority of Private Enterprises
Original languageGerman
Title of host publicationPolitik und Verantwortung : Analysen zum Wandel politischer Entscheidungs- und Rechtfertigungspraktiken
EditorsChristopher Daase, Julian Junk, Stefan Kroll, Valentin Rauer
Number of pages25
Place of PublicationFrankfurt a. M
PublisherNomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Publication date2017
EditionSonderheft 52
Pages358-382
ISBN (print)978-3-8487-3083-4
ISBN (electronic)978-3-8452-7193-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Bibliographical note

ISBN print: 978-3-8487-3083-4
ISBN online: 978-3-8452-7193-4

    Research areas

  • Responsibility, Political Authority, Private Business Actors, Transnational Regulations
  • Politics