Business, Integrity, and Peace

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-86298-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Business, Value Creation, and Society

Ethical business behavior has an unexpected payoff: it reduces the likelihood of violence. This insight forms the basis of Business, Integrity, and Peace. Academic and popular interest in the topics of corporate responsibility and 'peace through commerce' has surged in recent years. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fort, Timothy L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Fort, Timothy L.
Timothy L. Fort is the Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics at George Washington University Business School and an academic advisor for the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. He is Director of the Program on Peace Through Commerce at George Washington University's Business School and is also an adjunct faculty member of the George Washington University School of Law.