EXAMINING MARKETING MIX FROM AN ETHICAL VIEW: A FIELD RESEARCH ON MARKETING EXECUTIVES
ÖZDEMİR Erkan TOKOL
Abstract
ÖZDEMİR Erkan TOKOL
Abstract
Marketing is the most significant function of enterprises in which unethical practices are experienced.Marketing executives' decisions relating to product, price, place and promotion items of marketing mix and actions that they will perform for it affect the department of marketing and consequently marketing will affect the evaluation of the enterprise from an ethical point of view.The aim of the study is to investigate the ethical perspective of marketing executives regarding the marketing mix decisions and practices, and make a sector comparison.First, the literature on the marketing ethics are reviewed.Then a questionnaire on marketing executives who serve in different enterprises is designed to display marketing executives' ethics view points about marketing and make a sector comparison, and a field study is done on marketing executives according to elements of the marketing mix.
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Marketing is the most significant function of enterprises in which unethical practices are experienced.Marketing executives' decisions relating to product, price, place and promotion items of marketing mix and actions that they will perform for it affect the department of marketing and consequently marketing will affect the evaluation of the enterprise from an ethical point of view.The aim of the study is to investigate the ethical perspective of marketing executives regarding the marketing mix decisions and practices, and make a sector comparison.First, the literature on the marketing ethics are reviewed.Then a questionnaire on marketing executives who serve in different enterprises is designed to display marketing executives' ethics view points about marketing and make a sector comparison, and a field study is done on marketing executives according to elements of the marketing mix.
Key concepts: Marketing mix, Marketing, Business, Field (mathematics), Marketing research, Marketing management, Public relations, Political science