Bücher der Reihe John W. Houck Notre Dame Series in Business Ethics

Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact contains a foreword, introduction, and twenty-one chapters by major business leaders and scholars who discuss the issues set out by the United Nations Global Compact, launched in 2000. The chapters address the purpose of the corporation; the influence of legal and peace studies; the experience of career NGO officials and of business leaders; how commerce can help promote peace; and how we might envision the future. Ten case studies document the efforts of individual businesses to successfully serve society''s interests as well as their own.

The business world is often caricatured as a world where everyone knows the price, yet appreciates the value of nothing. It is the moral imagination that allows people to become aware of the dimensions of a situation. This text shows how society might learn to develop a sense of moral imagination.