- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Choosing Marketing Policy in the Short Run
- 2 Choosing Marketing Policy in the Long Run
- 3 What is the Impact on Strategy?
- 4 Should the Firm Pursue Market Share?
- 5 Should the Multiproduct Firm Use the Market Share Metric?
- 6 Pricing New Products: Strategies and Caveats
- 7 Choosing Strategies for New Products Using Market-Level Data
- 8 Choosing Strategies for New Products Using Primary Data
- 9 Bundling
- 10 Channels of Distribution
- 11 How Does Consumer Behavior Affect Marketing Policy?
- 12 Coordinating Advertising Strategy, Branding, and Positioning
- 13 Determining the Advertising Budget
- 14 Measuring Advertising Productivity
- 15 How Should the Firm Compensate Managers to Maximize Performance?
- 16 How Should the Firm Compensate Its Sales Force? The Basic Model
- 17 Model Extensions: How Should the Multiagent/Multiproduct Firm Reward and Measure Sales Force Performance?
- 18 How to Make Marketing Decisions When Competitors React: A Game-Theoretic Approach
- 19 Measuring and Building Brand Equity
- 20 How Marketing Policy Affects Consumer Well-Being and Social Welfare
- 21 Internet Marketing
- 22 Mergers and Acquisitions
- 23 How to Choose Optimal International Marketing Strategies
- Glossary
- Index
How Should the Firm Compensate Its Sales Force? The Basic Model
How Should the Firm Compensate Its Sales Force? The Basic Model
- Chapter:
- (p.333) 16 How Should the Firm Compensate Its Sales Force? The Basic Model
- Source:
- Fusion for Profit
- Author(s):
Sharan Jagpal (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter shows how the firm should design sales force compensation plans to maximize its performance. It distinguishes whether or not the firm can observe the salesperson's effort. It shows how marketing-finance fusion allows the firm to design compensation plans based on such factors as the firm's cost structure, cost and demand uncertainty, consumer satisfaction, the firm's cost of capital, and whether or not the firm delegates price-setting or sales call policy to the salesperson. It shows how the sales force compensation plan should allow for multiperiod effects and the impact of Internet advertising. In particular, it distinguishes different scenarios (e.g., whether Internet advertising and conventional advertising are substitutes or complements).
Keywords: certainty-equivalent profits, consumer satisfaction, cost of capital, draw system, internet marketing, learning curve, multiperiod contracts, price delegation, sales force compensation plans, unobservable effort
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Choosing Marketing Policy in the Short Run
- 2 Choosing Marketing Policy in the Long Run
- 3 What is the Impact on Strategy?
- 4 Should the Firm Pursue Market Share?
- 5 Should the Multiproduct Firm Use the Market Share Metric?
- 6 Pricing New Products: Strategies and Caveats
- 7 Choosing Strategies for New Products Using Market-Level Data
- 8 Choosing Strategies for New Products Using Primary Data
- 9 Bundling
- 10 Channels of Distribution
- 11 How Does Consumer Behavior Affect Marketing Policy?
- 12 Coordinating Advertising Strategy, Branding, and Positioning
- 13 Determining the Advertising Budget
- 14 Measuring Advertising Productivity
- 15 How Should the Firm Compensate Managers to Maximize Performance?
- 16 How Should the Firm Compensate Its Sales Force? The Basic Model
- 17 Model Extensions: How Should the Multiagent/Multiproduct Firm Reward and Measure Sales Force Performance?
- 18 How to Make Marketing Decisions When Competitors React: A Game-Theoretic Approach
- 19 Measuring and Building Brand Equity
- 20 How Marketing Policy Affects Consumer Well-Being and Social Welfare
- 21 Internet Marketing
- 22 Mergers and Acquisitions
- 23 How to Choose Optimal International Marketing Strategies
- Glossary
- Index
