Business Ethics in Marketing Communication

Seungho Cho ()
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Seungho Cho: Soong-sil University, https://www.abacademies.org/articles/Business-ethtics-in-marketing-communication-24-1-354.pdf

International Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2020, vol. 24, issue 1

Abstract: The current research investigates how marketing professionals perceive an ethical issue of viral marketing and what factors are associated with their moral judgment on an ethical problem of a power blogger. In specific, this research considered organizational factors and individual factors of marketing professional affecting judgment on an ethical issue of a power blogger. To answer the research questions, online survey was taken by marketing professionals. Three hundred ninety-four marketing professionals participated in the online survey. The research found that marketing professional had strong utilitarian perspective on the ethical issue of viral marketing. Individualism among individual factors was significantly associated with deontology, relativism, and utilitarianism, and sense of rivalry was also significantly associated with justice and relativism. However, there were no significant organizational factors associating with each ethical perspective

Keywords: Viral Marketing; Ethical Perspectives; Power Blogger; Marketing Professionals. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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