Despite their importance to the supply of prescription drugs, there has been limited research on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their vertical relationships to insurers and drug manufacturers. This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on this topic, motivates why...

Die Digitalisierung von Vertriebskanälen hat zu einer Verschärfung des Wettbewerbs auch im B2B Sektor beigetragen. Anbieter technischer Anlagen setzen teilweise bis heute auf eine traditionelle Vertriebsarchitektur durch Werks- und Handelsvertreter. Mehrkanalvertriebs-Systeme die...

In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides welfare gains to foreign firms using these services....

Die Digitalisierung von Vertriebskanälen hat zu einer Verschärfung des Wettbewerbs auch im B2B Sektor beigetragen. Anbieter technischer Anlagen setzen teilweise bis heute auf eine traditionelle Vertriebsarchitektur durch Werks- und Handelsvertreter. Mehrkanalvertriebs-Systeme die...

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...

Many production firms use intermediary trading firms to export indirectly. This paper uses Chinese export data at the transaction level to investigate the tax evasion motive through indirect trade. The paper provides strong evidence that, under China's partial export value-added tax rebate...

Many production firms use intermediary trading firms to export indirectly. This paper uses Chinese export data at the transaction level to investigate the tax evasion motive through indirect trade. The paper provides strong evidence that, under Chinas partial export value-added tax rebate...

This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves. Considering sales agents and distributors as primary gatekeepers, the book examines the networks in which they operate, how they operate, how their practices have evolved, and the power and...

Many production firms use intermediary trading firms to export indirectly. This paper investigates the tax evasion motive through indirect trade, using Chinese export data at transaction level. We provide strong evidence that, under the partial export VAT rebate policy of China, production firms...

Sales agents are impatient relative to owners. If a good fails to sell, the owner still retains possession of that good and can enjoy its services, whereas the agent receives nothing. As a consequence, sales agents prefer a lower price than does an owner. Owners are therefore reluctant to...

Sales agents are impatient relative to owners. If a good fails to sell, the owner still retains possession of that good and can enjoy its services, whereas the agent receives nothing. As a consequence, sales agents prefer a lower price than does an owner. Owners are therefore reluctant to...

Dieses Buch aus der Anti-Stress-Trainer-Reihe ist auf die Berufsgruppe der Handelsvertreter zugeschnitten. Ein hohes Arbeitspensum sowie Termin- und Erfolgsdruck und der Umgang mit schwierigen Kunden sind nur einige der Stressoren. Der Tätigkeitsbereich hat sich gewandelt und dennoch ist eines...

Wie wählt man die richtige Vertretung aus? -- Wie bewirbt man sich um eine neue Vertretung? -- Was muss man über den Provisionssatz wissen? -- Welche Serviceleistungen müssen erbracht werden? -- Wie werden Mitarbeiter eingesetzt und geführt? -- Welche Kennzahlen sind für die...

L'ouvrage expose, dans une perspective comparative, l'ensemble des règles européennes et françaises applicables en la matière : agence commerciale et droit de la concurrence, harmonisation européenne, critères du contrat d'agence, fin du contrat

ch. 1. The intermediary : an introduction -- ch. 2. The correct trading rules -- ch. 3. PIA : the Primary Intermediary Agent -- ch. 4. Dispelling the myths : LOI, POP, ASWP and more -- ch. 5. Starting to trade -- ch. 6. The string contract -- ch. 7. Securing the goods -- ch. 8. The enquiry...

Many production firms use intermediary trading firms to export indirectly. This paper uses Chinese export data at the transaction level to investigate the tax evasion motive through indirect trade. The paper provides strong evidence that, under China's partial export value-added tax rebate...

"Fundamentals of Selling, 13e trains readers on a detailed, yet broad, step-by-step selling process that is universal in nature. Numerous sales personnel in the industry today have commented on how this market-leading textbook reflects what they do on sales calls with prospects and customers....

This paper examined the possibility of an extension of Lind’s and Goldkuhl’s (2005) and Goldkhul (1998) conceptualization of business transaction (in terms of Business Action Theory, B.A.T.), in order to examine the value of a socioinstrumental pragmatism view of communication actions for...

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...