Bond Business and Peace-Building

The Role of Natural Resources Companies
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-30249-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

The time is now for businesses to begin considering how they might contribute to conditions of peace. This book builds on original research foregrounding ‘peace’ as a core business outcome for natural resources industries. Especially in situations where natural resources industries have exacerbated existing or caused new conflict, foregrounding peace as a core business outcome can bring substantial benefits. Peace is a concept most people understand. Research outcomes show that when workers and line managers start reframing their day-to-day decisions in terms of peace outcomes they are more likely to create sustainable development outcomes: efficient and cost-effective solutions to environmental and social business challenges.

This book provides both theory and practical solutions for CEO’s, line workers and managers in natural resources industries to benefit from making peace-focused, day-to-day business decisions. The book shows, in accessible language, the benefits of re-framing social and environmental aspects of sustainable development in terms of peace outcomes. Especially in the remote and rural regions of the world where natural resources industries have the greatest impact, businesses can lead the way in contributing to conditions of peace while bringing much needed resources to market.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bond, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Peace or a Pipedream?

Part 1: Reframing Business Outcomes in the Language of Peace

2. Business, Peace & Natural Resources Industries

3. Expanding the Connection between Business and Positive Peace: Natural Resource Companies as Non- state Actors

Part 2: Business and Peace: Paradox or Paradigm Shift?

4. Paradigms

5. Paradigm of Positive Peace

Part 3: Peace, Profit and Politics: Redefining the Possible

6. Real World Examples

7. Conclusion: Rhetoric or Reality?

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Bond is a Sessional Lecturer and Research Associate in the University of Queensland Business School, Australia.