Business, Integrity, and Peace
Beyond Geopolitical and Disciplinary Boundaries

Business, Integrity, and Peace, first published in 2007, offers an integrative framework for transforming businesses into instruments of peace.

Timothy L. Fort (Author)

9781107402898, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 August 2011

270 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

Review of the hardback: 'Fort is insightful, effective, and interesting in tracing the relationship between the role of business in society and potential contributions to peace. In a creative approach, he covers a remarkable array of concepts and evidence such as the tendency toward violence in the evolution of mankind, the anthropology of groups, the nature of law, spiritual/aesthetic approaches to business ethics, corporate culture. Upon this foundation, Fort forges three kinds of trust - Hard, Real, Good - as the connectors. Tim is a pioneer in the field of peace through commerce and it shows.' Lee Tavis, C. R. Smith Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Program on Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Ethical business behavior has an unexpected payoff: it reduces the likelihood of violence. This insight forms the basis of Business, Integrity, and Peace, first published in 2007. Academic and popular interest in the topics of corporate responsibility and 'peace through commerce' has surged. This book demonstrates that the adoption of generally accepted ethical business practices does not require wholesale changes in corporate governance. It does require, however, the development of more reflexive and self-regulating models of corporate decision-making, drawing upon three strands of existing corporate responsibility approaches: the legal, the managerial, and the aesthetic. Fort introduces the concept of Total Integrity Management, providing an integrative framework that transcends disciplinary boundaries to create ethical corporate cultures, which in turn offer the best opportunity for corporations to become instruments of peace. Business, Integrity, and Peace is an important and provocative work that will appeal to academic scholars, business leaders and policy-makers alike.

List of tables
Special acknowledgments
Acknowledgment
Notes on citation
Part I. Peace through Commerce: 1. The times and seasons of corporate responsibility
2. Red (and not so red) in tooth and claw
3. Tales of the firm
4. Honest brokers
Part II. Total Integrity Management: 5. Hard trust
6. Real trust
7. Good trust
8. Instruments of peace
Index.

Subject Areas: International business [KJK], Business ethics & social responsibility [KJG]