The Vision of the Firm

Timothy L. Fort, Indiana - Bloomington

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Three new changes mark the 4th edition. The most notable change is that throughout the text, URLs are embedded so that students can watch and listen to a depiction of the material. Sometimes funny, sometimes profound, students selected these YouTube and other social media clips as a way to bring the printed page to life and to make the text more fun and engaging.

The second change is an addition of a section on Business & Society. These issues can be very wide-ranging and so to give them focus, they are presented largely within the context of the ways in which business can foster peace, the topic for which the author’s research is most known.

The third change is a much stronger editing of the White Collar Crime material. Edited now to read more like a legal environment of business textbook, this section continues to provide the core material and knowledge concerning White Collar Crime, but in a much more direct and efficient way.

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Author Timothy Fort Nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

West Academic author, Timothy Fort, has been nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in advancing the field of how business can contribute to peace. Fort is the author of the business ethics textbook, The Vision of the Firm (now in its 4th edition) and The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business (with Stephen Presser).

Stanford University Press published The Diplomat in the Corner Office: Corporate Foreign Policy (2015), which won a Best Book Award from the Academy of Management and has been recognized as a seminal book in the business and peace field. He has also written three other books on business and peace (Yale, 2008) and Cambridge (2003, with Cindy Schipani, and 2007) with the 2007 book also winning an Academy of Management Best Book Award.

Fort is recognized as a co-founder of the field of business and peace and over the past 25 years, has led 16 conferences and co-edited 8 special issues. He also co-led a task force for the US Institute of Peace, developed a program with the US State Department pairing MBA students with entrepreneurs in Afghanistan in an attempt to differentiate that country’s economy and partnered with several NGOs including the Oslo-based Business for Peace Foundation, the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism, and the Peace Through Commerce Center.

Fort holds the Eveleigh Professorship of Business Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and is an Affiliated Scholar at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He holds his BA and MA from Notre Dame and his JD and PhD from Northwestern University.