Business and Society

Debbie Thorne is Chair of the Department of Marketing at Texas State University, San Marcos. Previously, she served as Director of the Center for Ethics at The University of Tampa. Debbie received her Ph.D. from The University of Memphis and a M.S. in Marketing from Texas A&M University. She has published articles in many journals and is the recipient of awards for excellence in both teaching and research. Debbie has been elected to leadership positions in the American Marketing Association and Society for Marketing Advances and serves on the Board of Directors for the Direct Selling Education Foundation and e-businessethics.com. O. C. Ferrell (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is a professor of marketing and Creative Enterprise Scholar in the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico. He recently served as the Bill Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Wyoming and previously served as chair of the Colorado State University Marketing Department. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Memphis, Texas A&M University, and Illinois State University. Dr. Ferrell is a past president of the Academic Council of the American Marketing Association and chaired the AMA Ethics Committee, which developed the AMA Code of Ethics and the AMA Code of Ethics for Marketing on the Internet under his leadership. In addition, he is a former member of the Academy of Marketing Science Board of Governors and is the current AMS vice president of publications. Dr. Ferrell is also a Society of Marketing Advances and Southwestern Marketing Association Fellow, and he serves as marketing ethics and social issues section editor of the JOURNAL OF MICROMARKETING. He is the co-author of 18 books and approximately 75 articles published in the JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF MARKETING, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE, JOURNAL OF PUBLIC POLICY MARKETING, and other journals. Dr. Linda Ferrell (Ph.D. University of Memphis) is Professor of Marketing and Bill Daniels Professor of Business Ethics at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ferrell has coauthored BUSINESS AND SOCIETY with O. C. Ferrell and Debbie M. Thorne and is co-author of BUSINESS IN A CHANGING WORLD with O.C. Ferrell and Geoff Hirt. She won the best paper award twice at the American Marketing Association's National Summer Educators Meeting and has published over 30 articles in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, AMS Review, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Case Research Journal, as well as others. She leads the Bill Daniels Teaching Business Ethics Initiative at the University of New Mexico. This initiative involves a $1.25 million grant from the Daniels Fund that involves business ethics outreach activities and the development of business ethics teaching resources.