ARC: Connections: SIGs: Marketing and Society: Board: Biographical Sketches
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Marlys J. Mason is Future Chair Elect and Associate Professor of Marketing at the William S. Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. She worked in marketing management in the healthcare industry before earning her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Utah. Marlys has published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Marketing Management, Academy of Marketing Science Review, Advances in Health Care Research, and several conference proceedings and a book chapter. She has received grants and fellowships from the State of Oklahoma Department of Health, National Science Foundation, Cherokee Nation, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and Association for Consumer Research. Her areas of interest include consumer health information, coping during transitions, perceived risk, social trust, and public policy and social marketing.
Linda Ferrell Associate Professor of Marketing Creative Enterprise Scholar University of New Mexico Dr. Linda Ferrell is Associate Professor of Marketing and Creative Enterprise Scholar at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests include: legalization of business ethics, corporate ethics programs, and business ethics education. She has published in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Teaching Business Ethics, European Journal of Marketing, Case Research Journal as well as others. She is co-author of Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases, Business and Society and Business in a Changing World. She is the ethics content expert for the AACSB Ethics Education Resource Center (www.aacsb.edu/eerc) and has spoken at a number of AACSB International conferences on teaching business ethics issues as well as co-organizing the 2004/2005 AACSB Teaching Business Ethics Conferences. She has been a consultant to several Colleges of Business assisting in their business ethics initiatives. She is President of the Marketing Management Association, Vice President of Development for the Society for Marketing Advances, and Vice-President of Membership for the Academy of Marketing Science. She is on the Ethics Committee of the American Marketing Association. She also serves as an expert witness in cases dealing with business ethics disputes and has developed an ethics and compliance program for an international corporation.