Marketing Strategies and the Search for Virtue: A Case Analysis of The Body Shop, International
The authors propose a framework to integrate virtue ethics into marketing theory and apply it to the development of marketing strategies. Virtue ethics, a philosophy that focuses on an individual's moral character, has received limited attention from marketing scholars and researchers. The auth...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
1999
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 249-263 |
Further subjects: | B
Decision Maker
B Case Analysis B Comprehensive Analysis B Economic Growth B Marketing |
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Summary: | The authors propose a framework to integrate virtue ethics into marketing theory and apply it to the development of marketing strategies. Virtue ethics, a philosophy that focuses on an individual's moral character, has received limited attention from marketing scholars and researchers. The authors argue that without consideration of virtue ethics a comprehensive analysis of the ethical character of marketing decision makers and their strategies cannot be achieved. They provide an overview of virtue ethics supplemented by a case study of The Body Shop, International to demonstrate how evaluation of the ethics of corporate executives and their marketing strategies is completed by virtue ethics. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1006057807115 |