Trust, Accountability, and Sales Agents’ Dueling Loyalties

This paper argues that current accountability mechanisms are inadequate to ensure that straight-commissioned agents meet their fiduciary obligations to their clients. In doing so, using agency theory, it revisits how the straight-commission compensation system creates agents’ dueling loyalties and r...

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Main Author: Kurland, Nancy B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1996
In: Business ethics quarterly
Year: 1996, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 289-310
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Summary:This paper argues that current accountability mechanisms are inadequate to ensure that straight-commissioned agents meet their fiduciary obligations to their clients. In doing so, using agency theory, it revisits how the straight-commission compensation system creates agents’ dueling loyalties and recommends mechanisms of accountability organizations, agents, and/or clients can recognize and employ to ensure agents’ fiduciary obligations to their clients.
ISSN:2153-3326
Contains:Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3857461