Business, Integrity, and Peace: Beyond Geopolitical and Disciplinary Boundaries

by Timothy L. Fort

• ISBN13: 9780521862981
• ISBN10: 0521862981
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Special acknowledgment	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Notes on citation style	p. xiv
Peace Through Commerce	p. 1
The times and seasons of corporate responsibility	p. 3
Red (and not so red) in tooth and claw	p. 35
Tales of the firm	p. 77
Honest Brokers	p. 116
Total Integrity Management	p. 129
Hard Trust	p. 131
Real Trust	p. 165
Good Trust	p. 199
Instruments of peace	p. 230
Index	p. 243
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