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Article

Publication Date

2-20-2020

Publication Title

International Interactions

Publisher Name

Taylor and Francis

Abstract

Do private firms act beyond “business as usual” and proactively build peace? Firms are largely absent from the conflict management literature, despite studies suggesting their importance. What conditions encourage firms to actively prevent or resolve violent conflict? Are such actions interdependent with ongoing international conflict prevention and management efforts? I argue international efforts encourage corporate conflict management-related activities since conflict management interdependencies can decrease the costs of conflict management, while increasing the benefits and success of their efforts. In addition, firms respond to gaps in governance and instability, especially when they are norm entrepreneurs or their reputation is threatened. I test these arguments on original cross-national data of conflict management-related efforts by large, domestic firms in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa from 1999–2013. The findings bring large-N empirical analysis to a topic dominated by case studies and emphasize the need for conflict management scholars to account for the role of the private sector in our studies.

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Author Posting © Taylor and Francis Group LLC, 2020. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor and Francis Group LLC for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in International Interactions, February 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2020.1723581

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