The use of sales contests in sales force management is growing in popularity and receiving increasing allocations of sales budgets in many industries. So far, however, the sales management research literature offers little guidance on why and when firms benefit from employing "openended" and/or...

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A key task of advertising media planners is to determine the best media schedule of advertising exposures for a certain budget. Conceptually, the planner could choose to do continuous advertising (i.e., schedule ad exposures evenly over all weeks) or follow a strategy of pulsing (i.e., advertise...

This paper presents an agency theoretic model-based approach that assists sales managers in determining the profit-maximizing structure of a common multiproduct sales quota-bonus plan for a geographically specialized heterogeneous sales force operating in a repetitive buying environment. This...