Abstract

Scandals and corruption in business, government, and education have a corrosive effect on public trust and undermine public confidence in the most important social institutions. There is no "silver bullet" that will prevent corruption, fraud, or malfeasance, but transparency is acknowledged to be an essential component in the responsible practices of corporations, universities and governmental and non-governmental organizations.This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the ICT, Transparency and Social Responsibility conference held in November 2007, at the School of Business and Economics of the Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal. It includes thoughtful discussion of many facets of transparency and corporate responsibility, including the philosophical foundation of transparency understood as an ethical virtue, the impact of information and communication technologies on organizational transparency, the role of transparency in organizational accountability, and the importance of transparency in institutions of higher education.