Ethical Marketing

Bowie & Murphy

Title Ethical Marketing

Edition 1st

ISBN 9780131848146

ISBN 10 0131848143

Published 25/08/2004

Published by Pearson Higher Ed USA

Pages 288

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Description

For Marketing and Business Ethics courses in business or philosophy departments.

This text explores ethical issues facing marketing practitioners. It presents ethical theory in marketing context. Coverage includes advertising, product safety and targeting markets as well as marketing research, product counterfeiting, channels of distribution, selling practices and how to implement ethics into marketing organizations. Part of the applied ethics series, Basic Ethics in Action, edited by Michael Boylan.

1. Ethical Reasoning and Marketing Decisions.

Views of Marketing Ethics. Principles for Ethical Decision Making. The Importance of Ethical Theory. Two Pseudo “Ethical” Approaches. Comprehensive Ethical Theories. Religious Models of Marketing Ethics. Other Theoretical Developments in Marketing Ethics. Ideas for Ethical Marketing.

2. Ethics in Researching and Segmenting Markets.

Professionalism and Ethics. Duties and Obligations of Researchers. What Researchers and Clients Owe One Another. What Researchers Owe the Public. Competitive Intelligence Gathering. Target Markets: Some Special Ethical Concerns. Ideas For Ethical Marketing. Concluding Comment.

3. Product Management Ethics.

Product Safety. Product Counterfeiting. Socially Controversial Products. Ethical Branding Concerns. Ethical Branding Practices. Ethical Product Management. How to Evaluate Ethics in Product Management. Ideas for Ethical Marketing. Concluding Comment.

4. Ethical Issues in Distribution Channels and Pricing.

Channel of Distribution Issues. Pricing Issues. Ideas for Ethical Marketing. Concluding Comment.

5. Ethics in Advertising and on the Internet.

The Power and Complexity of Advertising. Advertising and Society. Regulating Advertising Practices. Ethics and the Advertising Industry. Ethical Issues Facing Advertising. Ethics in Internet Advertising and Marketing. Positive Developments and Future Challenges for Ethics in Advertising. Advertisers and Ethical Principles in Action. Ideas for Ethical Marketing. Concluding Comment.

6. Personal Selling Ethics.

Why Personal Selling Presents Particularly Difficult Ethical Questions. Selling and the Law. The Gray Areas of Selling. Sales Management Ethics. Direct Marketing and Selling. Ideas for Ethical Marketing. A Framework to Evaluate Sales Ethics. Concluding Comment.

7. Implementing and Auditing Ethical Marketing.

Organizing for Marketing Ethics Implementation. Corporate Culture: The Informal Organization. Enacting Ethical Marketing Policies. The Concept of an Ethical Audit. Ideas for Ethical Marketing. Concluding Comments.

Appendix 7A. Ethical Compliance Audit.

Appendix 7B. Ethical Climate Audit.

Features & benefits

Ethical business and marketing focus—Accentuates the positive practices that business firms can employ to bring about more ethical marketing.
- Reinforces good ethics rather than devoting too much attention to unethical business practices.

Scenarios at the beginning of each chapter—Ethical issues that are examined within the chapter.
- Generates class discussion to open the chapter and class.

“Ideas for Ethical Marketing” sections—At the end of each chapter.
- Give students practical illustrations of points made in the text by outlining several options available for overcoming ethical obstacles.

Are you interested in exploring other areas in ethics?

Ethical Marketing is part of the Basic Ethics in Action series. See below for a complete listing of the wide-ranging anthologies and brief texts that focus on a particular theme or topic within one of four areas of applied ethics. A discount is offered when two or more titles in the series are packaged together. Click on any of the titles below for more information:

Anchor volume

Basic Ethics

By Michael Boylan

Business Ethics titles

Business, Ethics, and Sustainability: Ethics for the Next Industrial Revolution

By Joseph DesJardins

Journalistic Ethics

By Dale Jacquette
© 2007 | ISBN: 0131825399

Ethical Marketing

By Patrick Murphy, Gene R. Laczniak, Norman E. Bowie, and Thomas A. Klein
© 2005 | ISBN: 0131848143

Advertising Ethics

By Edward Spence and Brett Van Heekeren