Case No: OB75
Title: Incentive Problems in a Software Company
Publication Year: 2009
Author(s): Jeffrey Pfeffer 
Abstract Text: In July, 2009, Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, received an e-mail. The two co-founders and joint co-CEOs and their colleagues at Orange Kimono Software were struggling with their pay system. Orange Kimono, based in the north of England, was a software company with approximately 150 employees that made products sold to businesses. This case contains the text of the e-mail which details the old and new sales compensation systems and the resulting effects on sales, representative behavior, and customer experience.
Keywords: Incentives, sales force management, sales forces, compensation, Sales Strategy, Sales Compensation
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