JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Year:2019 | Volume:10 | Issue:4 |Papers Count:14

Objective Art business takes place in an institutional context and is highly reliant on the cultural, political, and social content of a society. Because of a variety of reasons such as the profitability of art industry in foreign market, low academic marketing knowledge, the opposing ideas to art economy according to its players, the high rate of graduate students in art disciplines and the number of art universities in Iran compared to the middle east, and finally limited and practical attention to art marketing in the world; it is necessary to conduct such a research. The present study aims to identify which marketing model can be used if we consider art business (markets, modern and contemporary art auctions) in an institutional and value-oriented approach. Methodology This study is fundamental in nature and is considered as a qualitative-exploratory research. This grounded-theory based research was conducted in 2017. Artists, art university professors, art researchers, media, art auctions, brokers, private institutions, investors, art collectors, art galleries, art exhibitors, art museums, art experts, art managers and policy makers, publishers, insurers, talent managers were among the participants of this study. The data were collected using deep semi-structured interviews. A sample size of 49 was interviewed for this purpose. Findings The main issue in this research was the participants' concerns. Some factors such as centrality, relevance, repetition, time needed for saturation are all applied to consider an issue as the main concern of a study. Since art marketing and related activities players was the main theme of the interviews, other issues and even other trivial matters were in line accordingly. While coding, the issues of "art institutional business network players and their important roles" were considered as the main theme of the paradigm modeling and the other issues were theoretically linked to it. Based on the evaluation and assessments, secondary issues of "art market", "art world nature", "art institutions", "art world basic values", "Iran art market and its characteristics" and "institutional context of art world and artistic experiences" were identified as causal conditions. Conclusion An artist is meaningful and can live forever in the minds of people based on 6 general tendencies. These tendencies are inter-related and each plays its own role in certain stages. Therefore, "art market", "art world nature", "art institutions", "art world basic values", "Iran art market and its characteristics" and "institutional context of art world and artistic experiences" are among those causal factors that can affect the players in art institutional business and the major roles they play in that area. Main roles played by "art institutional business network members" which are the major roles they play in this market along with the relationships among them can shape the art market and marketing issues. "Macro Environments, whether economic, social-cultural or politicalgeopolitical", are considered as intervening conditions that can positively or negatively affect the players in art institutional business network and the roles they play. The players in art institutional business network and the roles they play can be affected by "compulsory, imitation, and normative similarities and also artistic norms" as contextual and specific conditions. The relationships among "visual arts marketing” , "blended visual arts marketing", "art market studies", "classification, planning and positioning", and "improvement and optimization strategies" affect art market, artists’ prolong fame, and the value of his art. The application of the proposed strategies will result in the formation of "art market related values" and also "enhancement, approval, durability, and institutional validation" in intervening and contextual conditions.

Objective A great number of customers spend much more time than expected on shopping because of a lot of reasons like variety in products. Thus, they may feel confused and disappointed. Such confusion can influence purchasing procedure and determine purchasing behavior. Such customers fail to purchase wisely and may face difficulty choosing appropriate and reasonable products. However, if the information rate is high in a shopping center environment, it may add to the confusion among customers because it goes beyond their cognitive capacity. Therefore, it is important to identify affecting factors on such confusion in order to be able to reduce it. The present study aims at finding out how information rate in a market can affect customers’ purchasing value considering different motivational tendencies. Methodology This is a practical research in nature and exploratory regarding data collection procedure which is done using a questionnaire. The statistical population includes all the customers of a specific chain store in Tehran. A sample size of 300 customers was selected and from among 330 questionnaires distributed among those customers only 256 were responded correctly. Structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression were conducted via EXCEL, SPSS and LISREL to analyze the data. Findings The findings showed that there is an acceptable correlation between the store environment and the customers’ confusion and also there is an acceptable correlation between customers’ confusion in retail stores and joyful purchasing value. However, there is an unacceptable correlation between customers’ confusion in retail stores and profitable purchasing value. Moreover, there is an acceptable correlation between the information rate and the customers’ confusion and also there is an acceptable correlation between customers’ confusion in retail stores and joyful purchasing value. But, there is an unacceptable correlation between customers’ confusion in retail stores and profitable purchasing value. Conclusion Store environmental factors (music, color, odor, light and brightness), design factors (interior design and layout), and social factors (social connection between customers and employees) through creating confusion, anxiety and incompetence among customers had significant effects on joyful purchasing value. It can be concluded that store environment can be effective on profitable purchasing value through creating confusing customers in retail stores. Besides, purchasing environments can create emotional reactions in customers which are affective on shopping behavior and its consequences. At the end, functional motivational tendency can moderate the relationship between customers’ confusion and profitable purchasing value.

Objective Most of the experts in marketing consider the market (store) environment as an effective factor to attract customers which is used as a strategy to create a pleasant purchasing experience for the customers and influence the consumers’ behavior. Nowadays, hypermarkets pay more attention to the custormers’ comfort while purchasing and try to use a variety of strategies, nice background music or good smell in the market, to make the customers stay longer in there. Intention to buy can be affected by many factors like background music, stimulation and joy, trust and the products level. Music refers to the ability to conbey feeling through sounds that can help relies your feeling or thoughts and to show your inner characteristic. Hence, playing music can help keep the customer in the market for longer which may be effective in their purchasing intention. The main goal of the present study is to evaluate the role of background music on the customers’ intention to buy considering the intervening variables like stimulation, joy, trust and the determining variable of products level. Methodology This is a practical study in nature and is considered as a causal descriptive survey. The statistical population includes all customers of the 5 branches of Ofogh Kourosh Hypermarkets in Gorgan during the first four month in 2017. According to Cochran formula, a sample size of 420 were selected and 384 questionnaire were collected at the end. SPSS and structural equation modeling (SEM) through Smart PLS were run to analyze the data. Findings The findings of the study showed that background music positively affects customers’ stimulation. Besides, such stimulation influences the customers’ purchasing joy. The joy positively affects the formation of trust among the customers. The joy and the trust can both have a positive role in the customers’ intention to buy. Finally, product level keeps a balance on the purchasing joy among the customers. Conclusion Music distinguished features have remarkable effects on people’ s feelings and perceptions. Happy music can help create a joyful marketing environment for the customers. Low tempo music can convey mild thoughts and feeling to the customers, while high tempo music raises their excitement. Such stimulation can lead to a more pleasant purchasing experience. An appropriate marketing environment will increase the joy of the customers. New and simple designs can help customers enjoy the products more and can lead to a bigger trust. The trust helps customers make easier decisions while purchasing. The intention to buy can be estimated through perceptions and norms of a society. Joy and trust can lead to the intention to buy. A desirable environment may increase the customers’ joy which can result in a bigger customer population in future through word of mouth advertisement. Interesting and joyful products will create good feeling among the customers leading to an intention to buy. If you can stimulate purchasing joyful products, the customers will play around the environment which may result in the purchasing of unnecessary products. However, if the customers try to purchase based on the benefits and their needs, they consider the cost-benefit of the products and may lead to an economical purchasing after all.

Objective Social business is a sub-category of electronic business that seeks social, innovative and cooperative approaches within online markets and also uses social media to attract social partnership and cooperation of such network users to support online purchasing and services. Trust is considered as an effective factor leading to successful social business. Because of the growing popularity and application of social business and the significant role it plays in online business, it is important to investigate the key factors of customers’ trust and affecting factors on customers’ intention for social business. Therefore, this study aims to respond to such a question through developing a research model to assess some key structures of social business which can have positive effects on trust among the customers. Evaluation of affective factors on such trust can help us obtain a model regarding customers’ intention for social business. Methodology The present study is practical in nature and is considered as a descriptive-exploratory correlation study. The data were collected through library (secondary) research approaches and internet-based resources were used as the literature and theoretical foundations. The required data for tests and analysis of the hypotheses were collected through questionnaires. The statistical population of the present study includes TIWALL website users and those who are familiar with such a business model. Randomly, 210 questionnaires were correctly responded and collected through social media and structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses and analyze the data. Findings Based on the results of the study, reliability, the quality of the information, safety, connections, social support, and website quality have a positive effect on forming trust and consequently on willingness to cooperate in social business; while size, economic possibility, and verbal advertisement references have no positive effect on forming trust and willingness to cooperate in social business. Finally, trust has a positive effect on willingness to cooperate in social business. Conclusion Reliability results in trust and such trust can increase the willingness to participate in social business and ensures the success of a social business. For the users of TIWALL website, the size of social business is not of high importance, so it has no effect on trust for the social business website. The quality of the information available on the website attracts and keeps the audience, draw their trust and creats willingness to purchase and cooperate within such business. Ensuring the users about the safety of the transaction and confidentiality of the information on websites creates trust among users and encourages them toward a risk-free and beneficial partnership. Connections can lead to trust because users will be informed that some of their friends or the people they know are involved in this business, too. Therefore, they are willing to share their ideas and suggestions and take part in social business. Because the prices are reasonable on TIWALL website, this factor cannot play a significant role in creating the emotional and internal issue of trust. TIWALL website is a sales representative providing cultural products suah as theater tickets which concerns only a specific population. Such people consider themselves as stylists, so they are hardly influenced by other people and their ideas. Social support is one of the major aspects in formation of social business and directly affects on trust and encourages people to cooperate in such a business. The quality of the website, whether technically or aesthetically-driven, is of high importance. Website quality including the quality of system and services is the key in formation of a social business. Lack of trust in making decision for online shopping makes the purchasing procedure a challenge because of the risk the customer is about to take buying things which are not touchable and observable. Therefore, online shopping requires a minimum level of trust.

Objective Long-term strategic planning is necessary if an organization intends to go beyond its customers’ expectations and remain competitive. A balanced scorecard is considered as a mere scorecard without a strategic plan. Therefore, it will only report the important measures not a clear understanding of leading the whole organization towards success. Strategic planning as the rationale behind balanced scorecards can clarify the strategies in an organization, but it cannot show an optimal path towards success in that organization. Balanced scorecard system has tried to obviate such problem through strategic orientations, yet it has never provided a specific approach to determine success in an organization. It is also noteworthy that strategic planning helps managers create a comprehensive image of the strategies, but it does not consider the effectiveness of the relationships and the classification of those relationships. Therefore, the present study aims at proposing a systematic approach in order to draw a strategic plan and to rank the practical objectives of such plans. Methodology Alpha company, producing tires and tubes, has been considered as the target company for this research. There are around 600 employees in this company among which around 30 are managers, directors, supervisors or executive managers. Documents, observation, interview and questionnaire are the data collection instrument used in the present study. In the first questionnaire, used in fuzzy cognitive approach, 30 experts will respond to some questions regarding the organization strategic objectives on a scale of 0 to 100. The second questionnaire used in statistical approach, the 30 experts will rate the extracted relationship from 0 to 50 to determine the relationship between the objectives. The third questionnaire, considers the previous data as the input for BORDA-OWA approach, 6 executive directors rate the objectives on a scale of 0 to 100 according to their expertise. Findings Based on the proposed methodology, 4 main steps were taken in this study. The extracted strategic objectives through fuzzy cognitive approach were categorized and the key relationships were discovered. The experts were asked to select the key relationships and to evaluate them. The proposed relationships were analyzed based on statistical tests and were all approved except for two relationships. Strategic map was drawn based on the confirmed relationships. Then, executive directors analyzed and ranked the strategic objectives of the plan. Because of the effects of the directors’ personal beliefs, these objectives were ranked differently by the executive directors. The results showed that improvement in the tire profitable income, improvement in tire and tube sale and development of foreign market were ranked highest by the directors. Regarding the effectiveness on strategic objectives, promoting bicycle and tire products, evolution and distinction in after-sale-services and promoting employees’ motivation were ranked the highest respectively. Regarding the effects by the strategic objectives, developing foreign market, increasing tire export rate, increasing product sale and developing national market and agricultural instruments were ranked the highest accordingly. Conclusion Based on the results of the study, some promotion projects such as “ formation of a market evaluator team” , “ formation of a research and development team” , “ optimizing production line” , “ reviewing the salary and payment system” and “ formation of suggestion centers” were proposed to the company managers. The main focus of the managers might be toward developing foreign market and increasing export rate, developing local market and agricultural instruments and improving product sales. In fact, the results indicate that developing local and foreign markets are the most important objectives and there is a strong need to “ market evaluation” and “ research and development” teams. The proposed methodology offers the managers a comprehensive and accurate idea in order to make decision on the executive priorities within their organization.

Objectives The recent shift, from merely traditional approach providing only financial services to the new trend implying banks can be considered as business partners meeting their whole financial needs and creating a win-win relationship, in customers’ opinion towards banks has made banks try to apply banking marketing strategies to help attract more customers and respond to their needs. Hence, it is necessary for executive directors in banking industry and more specifically marketing managers to provide a comprehensive and practical definition of all the aspects of the banking and monetary marketing. They should also be able to act in line with marketing maturity level – the most optimum scenario helping banks seek their objectives and be accounted as pioneers in this field-. Therefore, this study aims at identifying Iran banking marketing processes and evaluating their importance in Iran financial industry in order to identify and prioritize the activities based on each maturity level. Methodology This descriptive study is practical in nature and cross-sectional exploratory in terms of data collection. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 27 experts and academicians in banking industry. The sample was selected based on non-random purposeful sampling. Shannon entropy approach was applied to classify and rank the processes. Findings The results of Shannon algorithm showed that banking services management (0. 1433), customer service management, advertisement and banking marketing integrated communications (0. 1224), pricing and providing banking products and services (0. 1042), banking services distribution channels (0. 0953), Banking marketing analysis and studies (0. 0899) are among the most important banking marketing processes which approves the mixed nature of banking marketing. Conclusions Banks can classify and constantly evaluate their products based on their profit margin (spread). They can also apply regular and explicit strategies to remove some products or introduce new products and monitor their products based on their life cycle. Banks are also asked to put their maximum effort on prolonging their products maturity period. In so doing, there is a clear relationship between the products/services policies and organizational strategies and services beyond the customers’ expectations and their competitors’ performance, covering their objectives and marketing strategies. Aiming at managing relationships with the customer, banks can plan to identify marketing processes and develop a list of their key customers as an important process in marketing. In addition, banks can promote their technical knowledge of the products and use advertisement to increase their products sale and provide services to the customers through better sale management in line with bank strategies regarding customer classification. Pertinent to pricing of the products and services, banks should always consider the possibility of discounts for their elite customers such as golden and key customers. To do so, the banks should evaluate the pricing system of their competitors in order to present a clear list of their expenses and prices and finally to reflect on pricing and profitability as the basis to ensure their financial profitability objectives and their instance worldwide. Considering the size, objectives, structure and values of the existing sale channels can help banks manage their banking services sales. Banks can also work on appropriate estimations; specifying selling methods based on their customers and identifying the customers’ decision-making strategies in order to affect their purchasing behaviors; modeling the pioneers in banking industry, constant investigation of the customers’ purchasing behaviors and the sale team. They can also highlight increasing their employees’ knowledge and capabilities to promote their share of the market and profitability. It is recommended that banks determine the key features of the distributing channels, size, structure, and values as well as to determine some specific distributing products for special customers, model strategies in the distributing channels based on their opponents.

Objective Successful development of tourism in many tourism destinations around the world depends on how to manage tourists’ perceptions by marketing managers and tourism planners. Thus, any information source about the tourists is of high importance that can be used to affect their beliefs towards the religious destinations. Therefore, it is important to identify the formation of such perceptions of a destination and the affecting factors, esficifically word of mouth (WOM) advertisement, in order to develop religious tourism industry and plan for appropriate related marketing. The aim of this study is to identify whether tourists’ perception of religious destinations can play an intervening role in the effect of WOM advertisement on tourists intention for a destination. Methodology The present study is practical in nature and is considered a descriptive-exploratory research. The statistical population includes the residents of Ilam and KhoramAbad cities. The sample size was determined based on Krejcie and Morgan’ s range of participants. So a sample of 450 available residents was selected. Descriptive and inferential data analyses were conducted. Then, factor analysis was run and structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses. Findings The findings showed that WOM advertisement had a positive effect on tourists’ mental image of reigous destination which is in line with the effect of religious leaders’ WOM advertisement on tourists’ perception i. e. WOM helps create an image of more abstract and intangible characteristics of a destination such as the atmosphere or the friendliness of people for tourists. WOM was proved effective on tourists’ awareness of the religious destinations. In fact, face-to-face interactions, WOM advertisement builds a database for tourists and affects his/her beliefs about the characteristics of the tourism destinations. It was also shown that WOM can help visualize the religious destination in the mind of the tourists. The more the desirable information about the destination, it makes it easier and quick for tourists to choose that destination among other tourism options. WOM was also influential on tourists’ intention of visiting a religious destination. In addition, the mental image of the religious destination affects tourists’ intention of such trips. If tourists have a more psychologically desirable perception of the destination in mind and if they are more informed about the intangible (the quality of hotels or restaurants and hospitality of the people) and tangible (transfer, the quantity of hotels and restaurants) features of a destination, they would have a more desirable image of the destination in mind. Conclusion Positive beliefs and excitements in the minds of tourists can result in the selection of that destination by the tourist. Moreover, awareness of a religious tourism destination affects the tourists’ intention of travel. This can prove the positive relationship between brand awareness and the purchasing intention of the customers which means the more desirable the awareness of the destination, the easier for tourists to give priority to that destination. Finally, the mental image of a religious destination affects the intention of travel to that destination which is in line with the fact that there is a significantly positive relationship between brand image and customers’ purchasing intention.

Objective Today competitive condition and quick changes adds to the importance of the need to analyze the companies’ performance in order to reach to higher positions as compared to the opponents’ performance. The present study mainly aims to investigate the role of business strategic tendency in organizational performance considering the intervening role of knowledge management. The researcher seek to evaluate 1) the relationship between strategic tendency and balanced point card; 2) the relationship between strategic tendency and knowledge management mechanisms; 3) knowledge management mechanisms and organizational performance; and 4) the intervening role of knowledge management mechanisms in the relationship between strategies and performance. Such a wholestic investigation has not been applied in the literature before. Methodology The present study is descriptive-analytic in nature and quantitative-practical in purpose. The data were analyzed based on structural educational modeling. The statistical population of the present study includes all active companies in the supreme informatics. A sample of 250 principals, managers, and directors in the field of information technology were randomly selected. At the end, 181 questionnaires were correctly filled and used for further analysis. Findings The obtained coefficient for all the tendencies and aspects pertinent to the relationship between organizational strategic tendency and knowledge management is higher than 0. 3 which indicated there is a relationship between the two variables. However, regarding risk taking, all the coefficients are negative which shows an opposing relationship between the two variables. The coefficient pertinent to the relationship between tendency and different aspects of performance are almost all fewer than 0. 3 which indicates an insignificant relationship between the two. Knowledge management has proved to have a strong relationship with aspects of performance. It should be said that knowledge management acts as an intervening variable between tendency and performance. Conclusion The results approved the effect of organizational strategic tendency on performance; so, the companies should enhance their strategic tendency in order to improve their performance and make organizational decisions and put them into action based on the business strategies. This may also help improve knowledge management in an organization. Moreover, the companies can exploit knowledge management mechanisms in order to improve their performance (hypothesis 3). Finally, it is recommended that organizations should first improve their analytical tendencies, background and future expectation so as to improve their knowledge along with application of knowledge management mechanisms.

Objective There is a general tendency toward direct marketing these days. Therefore, instead of designing advertisement and marketing strategies for all the customers in the market, it is recommended to classify the customers based on clustering techniques and then design specific strategies accordingly. This will reduce marketing and advertisement expenses, increase sale department efficiently, build closer and quicker relationships with different customers and etc. There are a variety of clustering methods. Provided that clustering means classifying customers in different groups with maximum similarities within the groups and maximum difference among the groups, it may not be appropriate to apply such a rule in clustering customers (people) due to their nature. Hence, fuzzy clustering technique seems more appropriate for customers because there are no absolute borders considered among different groups just as the market suggests. This study, then, aims to emphasize on this concept in order to apply fuzzy clustering on market. Methodology This practical research is descriptive-exploratory in nature of data collection. The statistical population includes all the customers of a mobile company, but due to availability issues only a part of their customers would be involved in the present study. A questionnaire including 6 questions was distributed among those customers and only 760 were correctly responded. Finally, EXCEL and S-PLUS were used to analyze the data. Findings The data in this study include three different parts of information. The first part includes some indexes selected for analysis of the clustering. Second part concerns with the customers service usage such as distant phone calls, free calls and wireless services. The third part refers to other mobile services provided for each customer. This part is presented in a binary fashion deciding whether a customer has received a specific service or not. Such services include activating more than one mobile line at the moment, using voicemail, paging, internet and other services. This algorithm was used to conduct fuzzy clustering in the present study. Following applying fuzzy clustering, only 2 clusters were judged appropriate for such data. The first cluster includes customers with lower income, job stability and lower loyalty to the mobile company, while the second cluster includes customers with higher income, higher job stability and more loyalty to the mobile company. The customers in the first cluster used services like free calls, wireless networks and pay phones. On the other hand, the customer in the second cluster mainly used services like distant calls and rarely used wireless services. In general, we can claim that paging services were the highest requested and then there are voicemail services, internet, and e-pay services respectively. The two clusters reported to have a similar tendency in using services such as voicemail, multi-lines, conferencing; yet, they were different in services like paging, internet, call forwarding (diverting), call waiting and epay services. At the end, mobile companies can set marketing strategies based on such findings. Conclusion It is suggested that mobile companies focus on general advertisements and distant call services, but only a little focus on wireless services. They can also put more thought on services like paging, voicemail, internet and e-pay services respectively. It is also recommended that, for female customers (mostly within the first cluster), the companies should focus on pay phone services, distant calls, and free calls as well as voicemail and internet. On the other hand, for male customer with higher job stability, it is suggested to focus the most on distant call services and provision of special discounts with this regard, but the least on wireless and pay phone services. Besides, voicemail services, paging, call waiting, call forwarding and e-pay services should be the mobile company’ s priority for male customers.

Objective There is a growing interest in the customers’ innovation in the realm of tourism studies. In the new global business ecosystem where individuals, organizations, governments and economy work together as an integrated network, we need a new innovation model. The model should be set at a level in which internal, external, cooperative and co-creative ideas can converge to create organizational values and sharing those values. Considering the active participation of the regional opponents in the world tourism industry, there is a need to an efficient multi-faceted model for co creative innovation in order to encourage the use of reasonable strategies in tourism industry in Iran which can lead to the development of tourism. One can lower the risk and decrease the costs of exploiting tourism programs through identifying different partnerships affective in the co-creative process. Hence, the main concern of the present study is to identify the consumers’ cooperation types in co-creative activities and their probable effects on tourism industry. Methodology The present study is a fundamental qualitative research. Grounded theory was used to extract theory out of the data. Deep semi-structured interviews, observation and documentary research were used as data collection procedures. The two groups of tourists and experts were interviewed in Iran and Europe tourism sites. The researchers used library and internet resources suh as books, articles, and case studies to complete the theoretical basis and used interview, asking for tourists and experts’ opinions to determine the desirable criteria. A sample size of 8 individuals was selected through nonrandom theoric sampling. Max QDE software was used to analyze the data and form theories while the interviews are all coded (open, pivotal, and selective) and then the subjects were extracted and joined together. Findings The researchers reported two types of partnership for the customers namely, explicit and implicit and two partnership objectives for the tourists. Customers’ partnership in cocreative tourism activities are classified into four categories of: explicit-cocreative, explicit-sharing, implicit-cocreative, and implicit-sharing. Conclusion The results showed that tourists can take part in cocreative activities within tourism organizations and companies in four different partnership types. Cocreative partnership characteristic allow customers’ involvement during the production time of the tourism product. The objective of explicit cocreative partnership is to create experiences or knowledge for tourists which includes brainstorming and co-thinking. Comparing the information of the customers among the companies at the same level can lead to creation of explicit ideas. Tourism companies, in explicit sharing, attempt to attract explicit partnership in order to share experiences or knowledge. Therefore, tourists are informed of their involvement in experience or knowledge sharing activities. Such partnership includes interview and sharing of ideas. Tourism companies furtively attract tourists’ partnership in implicit cocreative partnership in order to create experiences or knowledge. Cultural and impalpable programs are some instances of such partnership type. Finally, regarding implicit sharing partnership, we can consider visual programs and sharing activities among the characteristic of such partnership type.

Objective Some ethically controversial behaviors within the companies have faced today marketing with the hallmarks of lying, deception, exaggeration, fraud, privacy violation and similar accusations. Therefore, creating and maintaining good relationships with the customers on one hand, and drastic lack of studies concerning the customers' perception of ethical and unethical marketing have made it important to create such perception by studying ethical philosophies as a framework to explain the perception process, decision-making and the customers' responding to ethical situation. The present research investigates the effect of ethical philosophies on perceived unethical marketing. In so doing, three ethical philosophies have been analyzed including idealism – the degree to which individuals understand actions such as right or wrong, and the degree to which they believe that they will be able to obtain the consequences they desire-; egoism – the extent to which an individual places his/her own well-being over that of others-and materialism – the importance a consumer attaches to worldly possessions. Methodology The present study is descriptive-survey research. The statistical population includes all the students of Management Department of Azad University of Tehran, the Central Branch and, according to Morgan’ s table, a sample size of 375 students from among around 10000 were selected based on random stratified sampling. Finally, 400 questionnaires were distributed and 375 were collected. SPSS was run for confirmatory factor analysis and AMOS18 was used to conduct structural equation modeling to analyze the relationship between the research constructs. Findings The results showed that customers’ idealism had no effects on their perceived unethical marketing, while egoism had a negative effect on their perceived unethical marketing related to 4P. In addition, the more materialistic the customers are, the higher their perceived unethical marketing i. e. the materialistic customers are more sensitive to the ethicality of the activities and behaviors of the company. Conclusion Provided that the ethical philosophy of idealism is proved to have no effects on Iranian customers' perceived ethical marketing, its noteworthy that there are many ethical philosophies capable of affecting individuals' ethical judgments and their effectiveness is highly in line with the cultural and social contexts in the society. Considering egoism indicators, one can analyze that the egoistic individuals and societies only care for their own personal benefits and show less sensitivity to observing ethics by the companies. Hence, in such societies it is necessary for the companies to persuade the individuals that dealing with the company will maximize their personal benefits. The more materialistic people have shown higher sensitivity to the effects of the activities of the companies on their properties; so, they showed higher unethical perceptions because of the threat regarding their loss of their properties. Therefore, in such marketing environment, the companies should provide services to ensure protecting their customers' properties and the safety of the transactions. In addition, materialistic consumers have an unethical perception of the companies' marketing because they did not conclude that companies' marketing will lead them gain more happiness and success. As a result, the companies should propose the idea that the materialistic customers will gain more happiness and satisfaction if they get in touch with them.