CONSUMER BEHAVIOR MKT 351 Course Syllabus Spring 2016 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Allen Schaefer Email: allenschaefer@missouristate.edu Textbook Hawkins and Mothersbaugh Consumer Behavior: Building Marketing Strategy, 11th edition ISBN: 978-0-07-1288415 Course Overview Contemporary approaches to business emphasize the importance of adopting a consumer focus. Marketing, in particular, begins and ends with the consumer – from determining his or her needs to ensuring post-purchase
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Introduction For this paper I will be discussing Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) using Anglo-American and Primark case studies as examples. First, I will discuss what is meant by ethical business behavior. Second, I will discuss how Anglo-American and Primark apply ethics into their business practices. Third, I will discuss what the costs and benefits are to an organization when they behave ethically. Finally, I will choose one component from Svennson & Woods’ model
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their environment which in this case involves consumers, sellers, lenders, the government and the entire community at large (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2011). For a business to be able to accept its social responsibility, then the application of business ethics must be applied. Business ethics is considered to be the accepted norms or set standards that determine what is right and wrong in the context of a business organization. Therefore, this paper will summarize the development of business
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Ethical behavior and corporate social responsibility can offer significant benefits to a company. Ethical business conduct not only gives the company a great reputation but it also has a positive effect on its bottom line. One of the companies listed on the Ethisphere Institute's list of the World's Most Ethical Companies is Starbucks. Starbucks Corporation has 19,972 stores in 60 countries and is world’s largest coffeehouse chain, and is considered one of the world’s most famous and most liked consumer
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1. Introduction 1. Problem 1.2 Target Setting 1.3 Construction of Paper 2. Theoretical Principles of Marketing 2.1. Marketing 2.1.3 Ethno – Marketing 2.2 Culture 2.2.1 Culture as a Common Reality 2.2.2 Outstanding Elements 2.2.2.1 Language 2.2.2.2 Values 2.2.2.3 Rituals 2.2.2.4 Religion 3. Product Policy 3.1 Product Design 3.2 Brand 3.3 The 4 A´s
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In the paper by Hughes, Knittel, and Sperling, they “estimate and compare price and income elasticities of gasoline demand in two periods, from November 1975 through November 1980 and from March 2001 through March 2006” (4). They use data such as average per capita gas consumption in the U.S., personal disposable income, and average U.S. retail prices. Hughes, Knittel, and Sperling use the double-log functional form for this particular study. Additionally, they use alternate model specifications
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Running head: DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER COMMUNICATION BY PHARMACUETICAL Abstract This research paper presents an overview of the direct-consumer communication issues by pharmaceutical organizations. In addition, this paper examines some of the sectors that are rampant to litigation within this pharmaceutical industry. It illustrates why effective communication is essential for pharmaceutical organizations, because it greatly affects various levels of productions, reputations, revenues, public awareness
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This paper will address and analyze the different ethical issues and the questionable accounting practices that occurred to one of the largest accounting firms in the United States. We will look and review the mandated requirements for legal compliance (from Chapter 4) and determine which requirements apply to the Arthur Anderson case. Then we will discuss how the issues with the Arthur Anderson case may have played out differently if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act had been enacted in 1999. Next we will
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STUDENT NUMBER: 066275 CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY TERM PAPER TWO Living with Increasing Attacks on Cloud Computing Platforms Cloud Computing is an on demand, flexible and cost friendly delivery platform that has provided IT consumers and organizations services such as networks, storage, servers and applications over the Internet. Its importance is increasing as a large number of industrial and technological communities are rapidly adopting it. The benefits such as low cost and convenience of cloud
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