Marketing ethics: A comparison of American and Middle-Eastern marketers

International Business Review

Volumn 8, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 611-632

  Attia, Ashraf ^a   Shankarmahesh, Mahesh N ^b   Singhapakdi, Anusorn ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c Old D   (United States)

Author keywords

Marketing ethics; Middle East; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043284381     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0969-5931(99)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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