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Monitoring the Ethical Use of Sales Technology: An Exploratory Field Investigation.
Department of Marketing
  • Linda Orr, The University of Akron
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2010
Abstract

The use of technology in marketing has become an increasingly important competitive tool in developing and maintaining efficient and productive customer relationships. However, the ethics of using this technology has received little attention. This study investigates how and if marketing organizations are adapting their ethics policies to incorporate use of sales technology (ST). Based on in-depth interviews with executives from a variety of highly regulated to nonregulated business-to-business and business-to-consumer industries, our results show that, although most organizations indeed have codes of ethics, there appears to be a gray area of how these codes address ST. Further, it appears that monitoring the ethical use of ST varies and can be a frustrating and time-consuming issue for marketing and sales executives. Implications of our findings are discussed for the benefit of marketing practitioners, ethics managers, and researchers.

Citation Information
Linda Orr. "Monitoring the Ethical Use of Sales Technology: An Exploratory Field Investigation." Vol. 95 (2010) p. 239 - 257
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/linda_orr/17/