A large number of ethical questions arise when teaching marketing and retailing. Subject matter or content questions concern employer-employee, business-business, and business-society relationships. Course and program administration questions mainly relate to relationships between academic institutions and business, and between. such institutions and their students. In this article, a number of these problems are considered and then a partial problem-solving approach is outlined.
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