Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Cases
O. C. Ferrell (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is a professor of marketing and Creative Enterprise Scholar in the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico. He recently served as the Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Wyoming and previously served as chair of the Colorado State University Marketing Department. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Memphis, Texas A&M; University, and Illinois State University. Dr. Ferrell is a past president of the Academic Council of the American Marketing Association and chaired the AMA Ethics Committee, which developed the AMA Code of Ethics and the AMA Code of Ethics for Marketing on the Internet under his leadership. In addition, he is a former member of the Academy of Marketing Science Board of Governors and is the current AMS vice president of publications. Dr. Ferrell is also a Society of Marketing Advances and Southwestern Marketing Association Fellow, and he serves as marketing ethics and social issues section editor of the JOURNAL OF MICROMARKETING. He is the co-author of 18 books and approximately 75 articles published in the JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF MARKETING, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE, JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY MARKETING, and other journals.John Fraedrich is the James J. Jannetides Professor of Business Ethics at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He also teaches on special assignments at universities abroad. Dr. Fraedrich has completed extensive research in the areas of marketing and ethics. His numerous articles have been published in the JOURNAL OF MACRO MARKETING, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, and many other journals. He received his B.S. from Brigham Young University, his M.S. from Texas A&M; University, and his Ph.D. in marketing from Texas A&M; University in 1988.Dr. Linda Ferrell (Ph.D. University of Memphis) is Professor of Marketing and Bill Daniels Professor of Business Ethics at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ferrell has coauthored BUSINESS AND SOCIETY with O. C. Ferrell and Debbie M. Thorne and is co-author of BUSINESS IN A CHANGING WORLD with O.C. Ferrell and Geoff Hirt. She won the best paper award twice at the American Marketing Association's National Summer Educators Meeting and has published over 30 articles in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, AMS Review, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Case Research Journal, as well as others. She leads the Bill Daniels Teaching Business Ethics Initiative at the University of New Mexico. This initiative involves a $1.25 million grant from the Daniels Fund that involves business ethics outreach activities and the development of business ethics teaching resources.