Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies

This 2004 book looks at how business can foster responsible working practices and contribute to a peaceful society.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. The Plausibility of Connecting Business and Peace: 1. The role of business in fostering sustainable peace; 2. Balances of power and mediators of justice; Part II. Current Standards and their Amenability to Peace: 3. Corporate governance and sustainable peace; 4. Ethical business behavior and sustainable peace; Part III. Two Illustrative Issues: Gender and Ecology: 5. Gender, voice and correlations with peace; 6. The ecological challenges of war: the natural environment and disease; Conclusion.

Summary

A 2004 approach to understanding business in its social context. In contrast to the assumptions behind anti-globalization protests, the book contends that businesses which embrace their role in the community, work across cultures, promote economic development and invite external evaluation of their affairs can in fact foster a peaceful society.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy L. Fort, Timothy L. (University of Michigan Fort, Timothy L. Schipani Fort, Fort Timothy L., Cindy A. Schipani, Schipani Cindy A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2011
• EAN: 9781107402591
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40259-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, Business ethics & social responsibility, Business ethics and social responsibility