Perspectives on Behavior-Based versus Outcome-Based Salesforce Control Systems:

Forms of control systems used in salesforce evaluation and based on the monitoring of outcomes or of behaviors are described, contrasted, and evaluated in terms of emerging theories in economics, o...

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