The role of business in building peace and democracy in fragile and conflict-affected countries

Diplôme Thèse The role of business in building peace and democracy in fragile and conflict-affected countries eng 2024-01-17 2024 author Croce Julia Teresa 0000-0001-7971-8880 888516 Recherche et enseignement GSEM (RESEM) director Baumann-Pauly Dorothée 893745 Recherche et enseignement GSEM (RESEM) director Schrempf-Stirling Judith 885161 Recherche et enseignement GSEM (RESEM) 196 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:175153 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1751536 GSEM 136 Peace, democracy, and human rights are fragile. This fragility encompasses a multiplicity of “crises” (e.g., crisis of democratic institutions, crisis of capitalism, legitimation crisis, economic, political, and cultural crises) that modern societies face. Business has a broad spectrum of options for influencing macropolitical and macroeconomic development and, thus, responds to such crises. While political corporate social responsibility theory (Frynas & Stephens, 2015; Sabadoz & Singe, 2017; Scherer & Palazzo, 2007, 2011; Scherer, Rasche, Palazzo, & Spicer, 2016) offers fruitful grounds for speculating on what the political role of business is, questions arise at the nexus of legitimacy, pragmatic implications, and power. This study explores the complexity of peace- and democracy-building processes from a management lens. The objective of integrating peace, democracy and human rights into a business context entails leveraging business power to impact peace- and democracy-building. Considering the perspective of fragile and conflict-affected countries, this research investigates the political role of business in providing public goods such as human rights protection and peace-enhancing objectives. Qualitative investigations provide empirical evidence that business supports peace and democratic values in a context with military rule. Next, a sensemaking analysis further illuminates the meanings related to business, peace, and human rights. The findings describe a nuanced understanding of business in defining and respecting human rights and peace. Political Corporate Social Responsibility Business and Human Rights Business and Peace Fragile and Conflict-affected Countries Dewey 650 115 Institute of Management S3 false https://doi.org/10.26037/yareta:ybhtwyq6h5fs5dlakw5ijib6nq e10fdb9c-826d-45f8-9bcf-387ae3d71477 Thesis Private Julia Croce - Doctoral Dissertation.pdf 2581466 application/pdf fd407dfe354daf35c1b2ac56387d823b43bc08086c4ea7e9ba3757aeb4f8beea 307968ef-0ab3-4222-8e2f-c7756c3b2bb6 Imprimatur Public CROCE Julia Teresa_Imprimatur_1_1.pdf 83330 application/pdf 222ac042e9adf9078a85484226265640f79c606c213a19ef18aa723edac1a9ab closedAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Management

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