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The ethical behavior of retail managers

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A measure of ethics termed ethical behavior (EB) is postulated and tested across the moral philosophy types of managers. The findings suggest that certain managers, classified as rule deontologists, appear to rank higher on the EB scale than any other philosophy type tested.

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John Fraedrich is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. His areas of interest include ethical decision making and international marketing. He has published inJournal of Business Ethics, Journal of Macro-marketing, Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Management, International Journal of Value Based Management, andJournal of International Consumer Marketing. Dr. Fraedrich has also recently completed a book(Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases, 1991, Houghton Mifflin) on the topic of ethics.

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Fraedrich, J.P. The ethical behavior of retail managers. J Bus Ethics 12, 207–218 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01686448

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