不对称信息下的提成制销售激励合同设计  

Design of Sales Incentive Contract with Commission Payment under Information Asymmetry

作　　者：陈植元[1] 张蕊 段婷婷 CHEN Zhiyuan;ZHANG Rui;DUAN Tingting(School of Economics and Management,Wuhan University,Wuhan 430061,China;Jiangnan Valve Co.,Ltd.,Wenzhou 325013,China)

机构地区：[1]武汉大学经济与管理学院,湖北武汉430061 [2]江南阀门有限公司,浙江温州325013

出　　处：《运筹与管理》2024年第2期93-100,共8页Operations Research and Management Science

基　　金：国家自然科学基金资助项目(71871166)。

摘　　要：代理商销售模式下,不对称信息对制造商产品定价与销售合同设计的影响越来越不容忽视。本文基于委托代理模型,分别构建了两种信息情况下提成制激励合同模型,对比分析了信息不对称下产品定价与代理商提成的关系,以及信息不对称对代理商收益、制造商利润的影响。研究发现,制造商最优定价与高需求实现概率和努力成本密切相关,当高需求市场实现概率较小且努力成本较高时,制造商将放弃对代理商的激励,并设定较低产品价格。当制造商激励代理商努力时,不对称信息有利于提高代理商期望收益,但会降低制造商期望利润,不影响价格高低。此外,不对称信息会缩小制造商可接受的努力成本区间,当代理商努力成本较大时,制造商会因薪酬支出过高而放弃对代理商的激励,而不对称信息使得代理商薪酬进一步提高,使得制造商更倾向于不激励代理商努力,相应定价也随之降低。The principal-agent sales model is an important method that facilitates capital flow,product promotion,and market expansion,but it also carries certain risks.As the principal,the manufacturer is in a relatively poor position in information grasp.After signing the contract with the agent,it can not fully supervise the agent’s effort,which is prone to the moral hazard problem.This will increase the labor cost,affect the product pricing,and endanger the manufacturer’s profits and consumers’interests.Therefore,in the case of information asymmetry,how to design sales contracts and optimize pricing to maximize the principal’s profits is a problem worth studying.Considering that the manufacturer provides commission sales contract to the agent,this paper studies the principal-agent model between the manufacturer and the agent.We analyze the impact of asymmetric information on the design of sales contracts and optimal pricing of the manufacturer.The contribution of this paper is as follows:On the one hand,we combine the design of sales contracts and product pricing problem,comprehensively consider the impact of the agent’s efforts and price on product sales,and maximize the profit of the manufacturer by optimizing commissions and price.On the other hand,we consider the asymmetric information factors between the manufacturer and the agent,and study the effects of asymmetric information on the sales contract and expected profit,so as to provide suggestions for the manufacturer to encourage the agent to make efforts.The analysis leads to the following conclusions.Firstly,we find that the optimal pricing is affected by the probability of high demand and the agent’s effort cost.If the probability of high demand is large,the manufacturer will give up the low market demand and set a higher price to maximize profits.In this case,the effort cost will not affect the product pricing.However,if the probability of high demand is small and the effort cost is high,the manufacturer will set a lower price to take into account

关 键 词：委托代理 不对称信息 激励合同 产品定价 提成制 

分 类 号：C933[经济管理—管理学] C935