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Peter French, drawing on his extensive experience in the fields of business and applied ethics, has created a comprehensive view of corporate ethics that focuses on the nature of a corporation, how it is defined, and who are the players. By introducing the idea that corporations--not just the people running them--are moral actors, he offers a unique theory of a corporation.

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• Part I Invasion! The Middle Ages, The Seventeenth Century, And Today
• Human Persons and Corporate Actors: Freedom Without Relevance
• Corporate Identity and Responsibility: Mob Behavior and Corporate Decision-Making
• The Role of Structure and Function
• Corporate Internal Decision Structures
• How Corporate Policies Really Work
• Rational Nonprogrammed Decisions
• Rawlsian Individualism and the Power and Control Factors in Types of Social Interactions
• The Realization of Corporate Goals By the Exploitation of Human Weakness of Will
• The Twisted Tale of the Advent of the Commercial Television Situation Comedy
• Moral Side-Constraints: Kant, Nozick, And Corporate-Human Interactions
• The Moral Ranking System Vs. Classical Utilitarian's Alternative
• The Return of the Ranking System and the Moral Side-Constraints
• A Defense of the Consumerization of America
• Why Corporations May Be Better Suited to Being Ethical Than Human Persons
• Part II Inside the Invaders
• Stockholders and the Ownership of Corporations
• The Powers and Influences (Such as They Are) of Boards of Directors
• Management: Drones, Comers, And Stars
• Their Games and Sports on the Managerial Ladder
• The Protestant Ethic, Managerial Language Manipulation, And Lying
• Telepathy: Symptoms and Sources
• Types of Agency and the Antidote to Telepathy
• The Ethical Costs of Corporate Re-Engineering
• Heroic Whistleblowing and Conflicts of Duty
• Harassment: Invasions of Employee Privacy
• Harrassment: Sexual
• Part III The Invaders in the Environment
• Guardianship of the Environment
• Greed and the Redwoods
• Abstract Greed and the Insider Traders
• Spotted Owls and Loggers: Dominion, History, and Protection
• Part IV The Invaders and the Invaded
• Doing the Right Thing in Bed-Sty: Ethical Obligations of Biznez'n the Hood
• The Principle of Responsive Adjustment and the Pictures on the Wall
• Community, Shame, and Intolerance
• Disservice and Misinformation in the Service and Information Industries: Alienation and the Computer
• Extortion and Bribery: The Honda Story
• Privacy and Health in the Executive Suites
• Advertising: Deceptions and Ornamentations
• Part V The Invaders Invaded
• Ethical Relativism and Global Corporate Business Practices
• Japanese Collective Capitalism: The Rising Sun and the Setting Stars (And Stripes)
• Playing Games and Making War in the Global Marketplace
• Part VI The Invaders in the Dock
• Corporations as Legal Persons: Roman and German Traditions, Fiction and Realism
• Corporate Crime: Control and Adjudication
• The Trial of Enforced Corporate Responsive Adjustment
• Adverse Publicity as a Sanction in Corporate Criminal Cases: Hester Prynne in Corporate Attire
• Caught in the Deterrence Trap: A Variety of Sanctions as Alternatives to Cash Fines