The sales force deployment problem is considered which arises in many selling organizations. As a solution a novel mixed-integer formulation is introduced which is specifically characterized by an infinite number of variables. A column generation approach is proposed to obtain upper and lower...

Als wichtigstes Instrument zur Motivation von Verkaufsaußendienstmitarbeitern (VADM) werden finanzielle Anreize angesehen (Ford/Walker/Churchill, 1985). Deshalb wird der Ausarbeitung von effektiven Entlohnungsplänen seit jeher in der Praxis hohe Bedeutung beigemessen und viel Zeit gewidmet....

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...