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The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Ethics draws together an exhaustive overview of research into marketing's many ethical conundrums, while also promoting more optimistic perspectives on the ways in which ethics underpins organizational practices. Marketing ethics has emerged in recent years as the key and collective concern within the ever-divergent fields of marketing and consumer research. This handbook brings together a rich and diverse body of scholarly research, with chapters on all major topics relevant to the field of marketing ethics, whilst also outlining future research directions. PART 1: Foundations of Marketing Ethics; PART 2: Theoretical and Research Approaches to Marketing Ethics; PART 3: Marketing Ethics and Social Issues; PART 4: Issues in Consumer Ethics; PART 5: Ethical Issues in Specific Sectors; PART 6: Ethical Issues in the Marketing Mix; and PART 7: Concluding Comments and Reflections.
The Ethics of Social Marketing and Non-Profit/Charity Marketing
The Ethics of Social Marketing and Non-Profit/Charity Marketing
Introduction
In their 1969 Journal of Marketing article, Kotler and Levy observed that well-established commercial marketing principles were being applied to market organizations, persons and ideas. Initially, their observation provoked a lively debate among marketing academics, some of whom were not convinced by the idea of broadening the concept of marketing (e.g. Luck, 1969; for a more recent overview of the development of non-profit marketing, see Sargeant & Wymer, 2007). However, by the end of the 1970s, the idea of using commercial marketing tools and techniques to achieve objectives other than just profit was no longer considered controversial, and the ...
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