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Looks at how business can foster responsible working practices and contribute to a peaceful society.
Synopsis
A fresh 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.
Table 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.