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Social Responsibility and the Marketing Educator: A Focus on Stakeholders, Ethical Theories, and Related Codes of Ethics

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This paper is a commentary on the discussion document by M. Joseph Sirgy (1996) which attempts to develop a marketing educator code of ethics. The authors center their discussion around the concepts of "Social responsibilities in relation to certain publics" and "Social responsibilities in relation to certain actions", as presented in the Sirgy paper, "Certain Publics" issues and "Certain Actions" issues are both examined in light of each of the stakeholder groups, as well as in terms of several ethical theories. Finally, the proposed Academy of Marketing Science marketing educator code of ethics is compared to the ethics codes of other marketing organizations.

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  1. School of Management, Marketing and Management Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0520, U.S.A

    Naresh K. Molhotra & Gina L. Miller

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Molhotra, N.K., Miller, G.L. Social Responsibility and the Marketing Educator: A Focus on Stakeholders, Ethical Theories, and Related Codes of Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics 19, 211–224 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005901225320

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