Im Spannungsfeld von Industrie und Handel vermitteln Handelsvertretungen nahezu die Hälfte des Inlandsumsatzes der deutschen Industrie. In jüngerer Zeit wird der Aufgabenbereich von Handelsvertretungen unter Marketingaspekten verstärkt diskutiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit strukturiert das...

11 hypotheses from agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and Ouchi's theoretical approach on the impact of environmental, Company and salespeople characteristics on the design of salesforce control systems (outcome- vs. behavior-based) are summarized and tested on a data set of 270 German...

In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...