Marketing Ethics & Society

Lynne Eagle · Stephan Dahl

Sep 2015 · SAGE

About this ebook

Marketing, while essential to organisational success, is arguably one of the most controversial aspects of business management. Criticisms of marketing’s impact range from fostering materialism and unsustainable consumption patterns through to the use of deception, stifling of innovation and lowering of quality, to name but a few. Taking a holistic and international perspective, this book critically examines the ethical challenges marketing faces and explores strategies marketers can use to respond to those challenges.

The book examines specific aspects of marketing activities, such as ethical considerations in relation to young consumers, potentially harmful products and criticism of the societal impact of medical, arts and tourism marketing activities. It then combines these with wider discussions of frameworks that enable marketers to respond to ethical challenges, supplemented by discussions of cross-cultural and international perspectives, consumer responses and ethical consumption movements as well as shifting historical perceptions of marketing ethics.

The book is accompanied by a companion website including: PowerPoint slides and teaching notes per chapter, links to free SAGE journal articles and online videos selected per chapter by the authors, quizzes per chapter and links to further reading online.

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book is good for reference purpose

About the author

Lynne Eagle is Professor of Marketing, College of Business, Law and Governance at James Cook University and Adjunct Professor of Marketing at both the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Charles Darwin University, Australia. Her research interests centre on: trans-disciplinary approaches to sustained behaviour change in social marketing / health promotion / environmental protection interventions, including the ethical dimensions of this activity. Within this broad area, she is active in research relating to marketing communication effects and effectiveness, including the impact of persuasive communication via traditional and digital channels, and the challenges of communicating effectively with population sectors that face literacy and numeracy challenges. She has published widely and is on the editorial board of several journals.

Stephan Dahl is Adjunct Associate Professor at Charles Darwin University and James Cook University in Australia. Born in Germany, he worked in media, marketing and PR both for non-profit and commercial companies in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Spain before joining academia. His research interests include social marketing, ethics in marketing and online/social media marketing and he publishes widely in national and international journals, as well as being the author or co-author of several books on social marketing, marketing communications and ethics in marketing. He currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Advertising Research and the Journal of Consumer Affairs. His research has recently been featured in the UK on Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, and BBC’s Newsnight and Look East. He is also the co-author of Marketing Ethics & Society (SAGE, 2015) and co-editor of the Handbook of Marketing Ethics (SAGE, 2021).