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Undergraduate student attitudes about hypothetical marketing dilemmas

✍ Scribed by Carl Malinowski; Karen A. Berger


Publisher
Springer
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
769 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-4544

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✦ Synopsis


This study investigated the attitudinal responses of 403 undergraduate students with respect to nine hypothetical marketing moral dilemmas. Participants varied by gender, major, and age.

It was found that undergraduate women responded more ethically on the hypothetical marketing moral dilemmas, as hypothesized. Secondly, chosen major did not make a difference on cognitive, affective, or behavioral responses. Further, the overall means for each scenario were in the morally correct direction in every case. Also, alt intercorrelations for each story were significant. Finally, whenever there was a nonchance finding for age, the oldest participants answered more morally than the youngest subjects.

Implications of these findings for the undergraduate curriculum and for organizational management were discussed.