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Overview

Scott J. Vitell is affiliated with the University of Mississippi in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Business, Management and Accounting, and Decision Sciences.

Their work covers several subfields such as Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Main topics of research addressed by Vitell include:

  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Management and Marketing Education
  • Management Theory and Practice

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Vitell are:

  • "Challenging the Good Life: An Institutional Theoretic Investigation of Consumers' Transformational Process Toward Sustainable Living" (2022), published in Journal of Business Ethics
  • "Investigating consumer ethical beliefs: role of moral philosophies and personality traits" (2023), published in Journal of Consumer Marketing
  • "Shelby D. Hunt: Contributions of a pioneer in marketing ethics and macromarketing" (2021), published in Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Vitell include:

  • Derek Ezell
  • Victoria D. Bush
  • Matthew B. Shaner
  • Jiangang Huang
  • Prachi Gala

Vitell's publications appear regularly in academic journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Consumer Marketing, and Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science.

Best Publications

  • A General Theory of Marketing Ethics

    Shelby D. Hunt;Scott Vitell

  • The effects of culture on ethical decision-making: An application of Hofstede's typology

    Scott J. Vitell;Saviour L. Nwachukwu;James H. Barnes

  • The General Theory of Marketing Ethics: A Revision and Three Questions

    Shelby D. Hunt;Scott J. Vitell

  • Antecedents, Consequences, and Mediating Effects of Perceived Moral Intensity and Personal Moral Philosophies

    Anusorn Singhapakdi;Scott J. Vitell;George R. Franke

  • Moral intensity and ethical decision-making of marketing professionals

    Anusorn Singhapakdi;Scott J. Vitell;Kenneth L. Kraft

  • Consumer ethics: An investigation of the ethical beliefs of the final consumer.

    James A. Muncy;Scott J. Vitell

  • Consumer Ethics Research: Review, Synthesis and Suggestions for the Future

    Scott J. Vitell

  • The perceived role of ethics and social responsibility: A scale development

    Anusorn Singhapakdi;Scott J. Vitell;Kumar C. Rallapalli;Kenneth L. Kraft

  • Marketing Ethics: Factors Influencing Perceptions of Ethical Problems and Alternatives

    Anusorn Singhapakdi;Scott J. Vitell

  • Consumer ethics: An investigation of the ethical beliefs of elderly consumers

    Scott J. Vitell;James R. Lumpkin;Mohammed Y. A. Rawwas

  • Consumer ethics: an application and empirical testing of the Hunt‐Vitell theory of ethics

    Scott J. Vitell;Anusorn Singhapakdi;James Thomas

  • The Perceived Importance of Ethics and Social Responsibility on Organizational Effectiveness: A Survey of Marketers

    Anusorn Singhapakdi;Kenneth L. Kraft;Scott J. Vitell;Kumar C. Rallapalli

  • Religiosity and Consumer Ethics

    Scott J. Vitell;Joseph G. P. Paolillo;Jatinder J. Singh

  • The Role of Religiosity in Business and Consumer Ethics: A Review of the Literature

    Scott J. Vitell

  • Consumer ethics: a cross‐cultural investigation

    Jamal A. Al‐Khatib;Scott J. Vitell;Mohammed Y.A. Rawwas

  • Consumer ethics: An empirical investigation of factors influencing ethical judgments of the final consumer

    Scott J. Vitell;James A. Muncy

  • A Global Analysis of Corporate Social Performance: The Effects of Cultural and Geographic Environments

    Foo Nin Ho;Hui-Ming Deanna Wang;Scott J. Vitell

  • Consumer Ethics: The Role of Religiosity

    Scott J. Vitell;Joseph G. P. Paolillo

  • Ethical Sensitivity to Stakeholder Interests: A Cross-Cultural Comparison:

    Jeffrey G. Blodgett;Long-Chuan Lu;Gregory M. Rose;Scott J. Vitell

  • The relationship between ethics and job satisfaction: An empirical investigation

    Scott J. Vitell;D. L. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Anusorn Singhapakdi
Anusorn Singhapakdi Old Dominion University
Gregory M. Rose
Gregory M. Rose University of Washington
Shelby D. Hunt
Shelby D. Hunt Texas Tech University
L. J. Shrum
L. J. Shrum Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris
Dong-Jin Lee
Dong-Jin Lee Yonsei University
Michael S. LaTour
Michael S. LaTour University of Nevada, Las Vegas
M. Joseph Sirgy
M. Joseph Sirgy Virginia Tech
Stephen J. Grove
Stephen J. Grove Clemson University
John B. Ford
John B. Ford Old Dominion University
Rajiv P. Dant
Rajiv P. Dant University of Oklahoma

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