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unethical behavior in marketing?

hi i’m a marketing student and i’m doing reaserch on ethics, i was wondering how companies dealing with sales ethics issues these days? and if ethical dilemma effects the sales in negtive way? plz help

I’m not sure that your marketing instructor will appreciate this, but even though your environment (customers, suppliers, investors, community…) will punish you if it thinks that you are unethical, choosing to be ethical still incurs an opportunity cost. Think like this, you are Nike and you have six low cost suppliers for sneakers, just like Reebok. If you know that the two cheapest ones employs children and choose to use neither, you are constricting your options to compete. Not all questionable actions are found out.
This is why I detest linking ethics to profitability. It’s so hollow to follow the “Right path” because it makes you more money, instead of value driven behavior being done for more fundamental principles.

Good luck to you on this….

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