In der jüngsten Vergangenheit wird der Effizienz und Effektivität von Funktionen, die von Unternehmen selbst wahrgenommen werden, erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Während diese Diskussion bisher auf den Bereich der Beschaffung und Produktion beschränkt war, wird neuerdings im Rahmen von...

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...

This paper investigates the contractual choice between exclusive dealing and common agency in a simple international oligopoly model where products are sold through intermediaries. We find that when trade barriers are high domestic firms tend to adopt exclusive dealing contracts, whereas trade...

This paper investigates the contractual choice between exclusive dealing and common agency in a simple international oligopoly model where products are sold through intermediaries. We find that when trade barriers are high domestic firms tend to adopt exclusive dealing contracts, whereas trade...

In the presented paper we introduce an approach to assess particular economic effects which may arise with bringing mobile technologies into the field of sales and distribution. The research problem posed here comprises quite a special case where sales operations of a company are carried by its...