Patrick E. Murphy is Professor of Marketing at the Mendoza Business School, Notre Dame University, USA. Patrick specializes in marketing and business ethics issues and his recent work has focused on normative perspectives for ethical and socially responsible marketing, distributive justice as it relates to marketing decision making, emerging ethical concerns in advertising, stakeholder theory, and marketing as well as ethics and corporate social responsibility for marketing in a global marketplace

John F. Sherry, Jr. is Herrick Professor of Marketing and Chairman of the Department at the Mendoza Business School, Notre Dame University, USA. John is an anthropologist who studies the sociocultural and symbolic dimensions of consumption, and the cultural ecology of marketing. His recent work has focused on experiential retailing, holistic branding, and consumption aesthetics. Among his current project is a study of the social rituals involved in tailgating during football games