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- Title
- Sales force automation : review, critique, research agenda
- Related
- International journal of management reviews, Vol. 8, Issue 4, p.213-231
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2006.00128.x
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Date
- 2006
- Author/Creator
- Buttle, Francis
- Author/Creator
- Ang, Lawrence
- Author/Creator
- Iriana, Reiny
- Description
- We review and critique the research literature on sales force automation (SFA). SFA involves the application of information technology to support the sales function. SFA software provides functionality that helps companies manage sales pipelines, track contacts and configure products, inter alia. The paper is organized into four main sections. First, we review the SFA environment, identifying definitions, vendor classifications and software attributes. We then move to a review and classification of the academic research that has been published on SFA. We find that the entire body of SFA knowledge attempts to answer just four questions: Why do organizations adopt SFA? What are the organizational impacts of SFA? What accounts for the success or failure of SFA projects? What accounts for variance in salesperson adoption of SFA? We then critique this body of knowledge on a number of theoretical and methodological grounds, and finally propose a research agenda for the future.
- Description
- 19 page(s)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Macquarie Graduate School of Management
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/25983
- Identifier
- ISSN:1468-2370
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2006004980
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
