Executive Summaries.

This article presents summaries of articles published in the October 1, 2000 issue of the journal "Business Ethics." The article "Business Ethics As Academic Field in Africa: Its Current Status," reflects on the state of business ethics as academic field in Africa that has been largely neglected, partly because there existed no overall picture of what is happening in this field of study. A paper reports the findings of the first comprehensive survey on the state of business ethics as academic field on the African continent. It has both a descriptive and reflective component. In the descriptive part of the paper the research strategy and methodology used to conduct a survey is outlined as well as the difficulties encountered in the research project. "Fraud and the African Renaissance," establishes a link between fraud and the ideal of the African Renaissance. It then gives an overview of the extent of fraud in Africa by discussing the findings of a recent forensic survey on fraud in Africa. "Fraud: Who Polices Europe?" considers the issues involved in combating fraud in European institutions and spending programmes.