Background: Unethical behavior among nurses is gradually becoming a serious problem in the health sector of Nigeria and this call for urgent concern. However, it may be associated with issues inside health care organizations. This therefore prompted this study to investigate the relationship between role ambiguity, organizational justice and unethical behavior among nurses. Methods: The study ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether some dentrifices contain steroids. MATERIALS AND METHODS Samples of 20 brands claiming to have any medicinal benefit and readily available in the open market were submitted for testing for the presence of steroids to the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Laboratories, Karachi. RESULTS Eight samples tested positive on the first test and sev...

In 1994 Milk Marketing Boards in the UK were disbanded, their role as milk purchasers was taken by more than 100 licensed organisations. It is shown that this change resulted in an increase in the variation between producers’ milk price. The majority of dairy farmers sold milk through the Milk Marketing Boards designated successor; a farmer owned co-operative called Milk Marque. In doing so the...

From a marketing communication point of view, new digital marketing channels, such as Internet and mobile phones, are considered to be powerful opportunities to reach consumers by allowing interactivity and personalisation of the content and context of the message. The increased number of media has, however, led to a harder competition for consumers’ attention. Given the potential of digital me...

The problems of global warming and sustainability, which are now causes for concern, will, in some way, have an impact on our lives. As a consequence increased focus ethical consumerism, rapidly developing countries such as Vietnam seeing change consumer behaviors well the marketing strategies used by corporations. This means that marketers must learn more about what makes people want to shop e...

This paper investigates the degree of market orientation of participants in the fresh produce marketing channel in Zimbabwe and the extent to which it is influenced by environmental uncertainty. The results generally support previous research that has shown that market orientation is positively related to perceived environmental uncertainty. There was a generally high degree of market orientati...

SATISFACTION AS ANTECEDENTS ABSTRACT Purpose: This paper studies, from the perspective of relationship marketing, the loyalty behavior of industrial customers in the context of a cluster. Loyalty is a key variable for studying long term relationships between firms. Research implications: Recent advances in consumer and services marketing consider that perceived value and satisfaction are centra...

Despite current scientific evidence that artificial feeding is a harmful practice, unquestioned acceptance of breastfeeding as the normal or "default" method of infant feeding remains elusive in the industrialised world. Throughout the developing world the profound consequences of the aggressive marketing strategies of the infant formula industry since the end of the Second World War is well kn...