TY - BOOK AU - Fort,Timothy L TI - Business, integrity, and peace: beyond geopolitical and disciplinary boundaries SN - 9780521862981 U1 - 658.408 PY - 2007/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Business ethics KW - Corporate governance KW - Integrity KW - Peace KW - Social responsibility of business N1 - 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 ER -