2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Role of Proctorship for Independent Sales Representatives: Influencing Effective Inter-Organizational Relationships
Authors : Renee J. Fontenot, Kathleen H. Gruben, Timothy B. Palmer
Published in: Proceedings of the 1998 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Independent sales representatives work in heterogeneous sales environments, have little direct managerial influence, great responsibilities, and are faced with the role of self-management to achieve both supplier and self-desired outcomes. An adaptation of a previously proposed schema of control, proctorship, is presented. Introducing the complexity of controlling independent sales representatives.