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Two Essays On The Recommendation Behavior Of Multi-Line Salespeople, Sarah R. Magnotta
Two Essays On The Recommendation Behavior Of Multi-Line Salespeople, Sarah R. Magnotta
Theses and Dissertations--Marketing and Supply Chain
This dissertation consists of two essays in which we examine the recommendation behavior of multi-line salespeople. Multi-line salespeople are those who are able to choose among overlapping, competing manufacturers’ products to make a recommendation to their customers. In this dissertation, we seek to explain why and how multi-line salespeople may recommend particular products to their customers.
In the first essay, we examine why salespeople may recommend a particular product. Manufacturers frequently face the challenge of motivating distributor salespeople to focus efforts on their products rather than on their competitors’. Thus, manufacturers often rely on outcome (e.g., rewards) and behavior (e.g., …