Marketing ethics and education: Some empirical findings

Journal of Business Ethics · 1991 · Volume 10 · Issue 8

Abstract

This study explores possible links between educational background and ethics among marketing professionals. Data from two surveys of members of the American Marketing Association suggest that marketing professionals with master's degrees and higher are similar to their less educated counterparts in both their ethical standards and their intended ethical behaviors. Marketers with business degrees, however, have lower ethical standards than do graduates of non-business programs, though they report behavior as ethical as that of their non-business educated peers. Business schools may be producing cynics likely to accept marginal behaviors of colleagues though not likely to engage in such behaviors themselves.

Keywords

Economic Growth, Marketing, Ethical Standard, Empirical Finding, Business School

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