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...

Motivated by evidence on the importance of incomplete information and networks in international trade, we investigate the supply of 'network intermediation.' We hypothesize that the agents who become international trade intermediaries first accumulate networks of foreign contacts while working...

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...

Bedeutung und Formen des Versandhandels -- Der Prozess der Angebotserstellung -- Vertreter-Versandhandel (Direktvertrieb) -- Der Prozess der Geschäftsabwicklung -- Querschnittsthemen des betrieblichen Gesamtprozesses -- Interdependenzen, Rückkopplungen und Optimierungsprobleme im Gesamtprozess.