Why Do Salespeople Spend So Much Time Lobbying for Low Prices?

In business-to-business settings a company's sales force often spends considerable time lobbying internally for authorization to charge lower prices. These internal lobbying activities are time consuming, and divert attention from other tasks, such as interacting with customers. We explain why...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Simester, Duncan, Zhang, Juanjuan
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109224
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2758-0116
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1635-3797