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    Business and Peace: Sketching the Terrain.Jennifer Oetzel, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, Charles Koerber, Timothy L. Fort & Jorge Rivera - 2009 - Journal of Business Ethics 89 (S4):351-373.
    Our goals in this article are to summarize the existing literature on the role business can play in creating sustainable peace and to discuss important avenues for extending this research. As part of our discussion, we review the ethical arguments and related research made to date, including the rationale and motivation for businesses to engage in conflict resolution and peace building, and discuss how scholars are extending research in this area. We also focus on specific ways companies can actively engage (...)
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    Ethics and governance: business as mediating institution.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book argues that ethical business behavior can be enhanced by taking fuller account of human nature, particularly with respect to the need for creating relatively small communities within the corporation. Timothy Fort discusses this premise in relation to the three predominant theories of business ethics--stakeholder, virtue, and contract. Drawing heavily from philosophy, he analyzes traditional business ethics and legal theory. Overall, his work provides a good example of how to integrate normative and empirical studies in business ethics, a task (...)
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    Business as Mediating Institution.Timothy L. Fort - 1996 - Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (2):149-163.
    This paper argues that business can be helpfully conceived of as a mediating institution. Drawing upon neo-conservative theology, the author argues that mediating institutions serve a vital function in a free society to provide social justice out of an expanded civil society and provide a framework for a flourishing free market. Such institutions also nourish the attitudinal orientation of solidarity in applying the principle of subsidiarity by which self-interest becomes fulfilled through concern for others.The author further argues that businesses also (...)
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    Peace Through Commerce: A Multisectoral Approach.Timothy L. Fort - 2009 - Journal of Business Ethics 89 (S4):347 - 350.
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    Nigerian business practices and their interface with virtue ethics.Eric C. Limbs & Timothy L. Fort - 2000 - Journal of Business Ethics 26 (2):169 - 179.
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    On Social Psychology, Business Ethics, and Corporate Governance.Timothy L. Fort - 2000 - Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (3):725-733.
    This paper is a response to a recent colloquy among Professors David Messick, Donna Wold, and Edwin Harman. I defend Messick’s naturalist methodology, which suggests that people inherently categorize others and act altruistically toward certain people in a given person’s in-group. This paper suggests that an anthropological reason for this grouping tendency is a limited human neural ability to process large numbers of relationships. But because human beings also have the ability to modify, to some extent, their nature, corporate law (...)
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    Business and Naturalism.Timothy L. Fort - 1999 - Business and Society 38 (2):226-236.
    Bill Frederick’s work calls on business ethicists to consider religion as well as nature. Because there are naturally wired religious impulses in human beings and because of the fairness of including normative approaches meaningful for business people, Frederick suggests that the “R” in CSR4 should represent religion. This article takes up the theme in terms of the emerging field of naturalist theology, particularly (although embryonically) as stated by theologian Paul Tillich. Doing so creates (a) connections between “God as Life” and (...)
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    How relationality shapes business and its ethics.Timothy L. Fort - 1997 - Journal of Business Ethics 16 (12-13):1381-1391.
    Just as Michael Porter's five forces provided a practical analytical tool for describing the forces that shape competitive strategy, so business ethicists ought to provide business leaders with a workable framework for understanding the sources of ethical obligations. The forces that shape competitive strategy vary according to time and industry, but are anchored in an ultimate criteria of profitability. Similarily, ethics can use a set of analytical categories that identify the relevant forces to business ethics on the basis of relationality.This (...)
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    Teaching business ethics: Theory and practice.Timothy L. Fort & Frances E. Zollers - 1998 - Teaching Business Ethics 2 (3):273-290.
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    The Spirituality of Solidarity and Total Quality Management.Timothy L. Fort - 1995 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 14 (2):3-21.
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    A Deal, a Dolphin, and a Rock.Timothy L. Fort - 2004 - The Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 4:81-91.
    In this response to Paul Lawrence’s Ruffin Lecture, I assess the benefits of integrating biology into business ethics including the way in which biology counteracts conventional economic descriptions of human nature. Section II looks at the dangers of the project and offers the notion of Multilevel Selection Theory as a way to address the notion of how one balances various biological drives. Section III concludes by suggesting that in order to optimally integrate biology, one should attend to contractual notions (the (...)
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    Bibliography.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:279-295.
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    8. Business as Community.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:155-178.
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    11. Bright Dots, Dot Coms, and Camelot?Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:222-230.
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    Index.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:297-307.
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    Introduction.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:179-179.
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    Notes.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:231-277.
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    4. Nature and Self-Interest.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:62-86.
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    3. Natural Law and Laws of Nature.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:39-61.
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    On Golden Rules, Balancing Acts, & Finding the Right SizeThe New Golden Rule.Timothy L. Fort & Amitai Etzioni - 1998 - Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (2):347.
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    2. Some Catholic Notions.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:21-38.
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    7. Social Contracting.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:136-154.
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    6. Stakeholder Theory.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:119-135.
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    10. The Dark Side ofReligion in the Workplace and Some Suggestions for Brightening It.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:199-221.
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    9. Theological Naturalism.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:181-198.
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    The sincerity edge: how ethical leaders build dynamic businesses.Timothy L. Fort - 2017 - Stanford, California: Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press. Edited by Alexandra Christina Frederiksborg.
    What's going on? -- Integrity and trust -- Corporate dilemmas in the absence of integrity and trust -- Inspirational stories of integrity and trust -- Making good decisions about strategy, ethics, and leadership -- Building on good decisions with authenticity and sincerity -- Twelve ways to lead with the sincerity edge.
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    5. The Velvet Corporation.Timothy L. Fort - 2001 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:87-116.
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    (1 other version)The Vision of the firm: its governance, obligations, and aspirations: a textbook on the ethics of organizations.Timothy L. Fort - 2014 - St. Paul, MN: West Academic.
    This book, written by a top scholar in the business law area, is written to create a skill in ethical decision-making and building ethical culture. It is complete summary of the leading theories of business ethics today. The book draws students into the material by providing experiences that allow them to tell their own stories and to define their own business ethics. It provides student examples of how to apply the frameworks and decision-making models so that the "how-to" is clear. (...)
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  29. War, Commerce and International Law, by James Thuo Gathii.Timothy L. Fort - 2011 - Business Ethics Quarterly 21 (2):345.
     
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    William C. Frederick’s Natural Corporate Management: From the Big Bang to Wall Street.Timothy L. Fort - 2013 - Journal of Business Ethics Education 10:389-396.
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    A review of Donaldson and Dunfee's ties that bind: A social contracts approach to business ethics. [REVIEW]Timothy L. Fort - 2000 - Journal of Business Ethics 28 (4):383 - 387.
    This article reviews Thomas Donaldson and Thomas Dunfee's new book Ties That Bind. The article argues that the book is a helpful elaboration of Donaldson and Dunfee's Integrative Social Contracts Approach, particularly with regard to their specification of hypernorms. The article also presents Donaldson and Dunfee's argument with regard to how the hypernorm of necessary social efficiency applies to bribery and raises questions about the extent to which human moral behavior might be hardwired.
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    Religion and business ethics: The lessons from political morality. [REVIEW]Timothy L. Fort - 1997 - Journal of Business Ethics 16 (3):263-273.
    The issue of whether religious belief should be an appropriate grounding for business ethics raises issues very similar to those raised in asking whether religious belief should be an appropriate grounding for political morality. In light of that fact that writings in political morality have been a common resource for contemporary business ethics, this paper presents contemporary arguments about the role of religion in political morality while noting the relevance of these debates for business ethics.The paper takes the position that (...)
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    Naturalism and Business Ethics: Inevitable Foes or Possible Allies? [REVIEW]Timothy L. Fort & William Frederick - 1997 - Business Ethics Quarterly 7 (3):145-155.
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    Business Ethics. [REVIEW]Timothy L. Fort - 2009 - Business Ethics Quarterly 19 (2):307-318.
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    World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, by Amy Chua. New York: Doubleday, 2002. Hardcover, 256 pages. ISBN: 978-0385503020. - War, Commerce, and International Law, by James Thuo Gathii. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover, xxii + 277 pages. ISBN: 978-0195341027. [REVIEW]Timothy L. Fort - 2011 - Business Ethics Quarterly 21 (2):345-353.
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