Optimal Monitoring in Salesforce Control Systems

Marketing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-177

  Joseph, Kissan ^a   Thevaranjan, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Monitoring; Salesforce control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347608460     PISSN: 09230645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008045115442     Document Type: Article

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