Organizational form and efficiency of franchise chains

Fuzzy revenue efficiency in sustainable supply chains

The performance assessment of supply chains including sustainability dimensions of economic, environmental and social is a significant aspect for managers and decision makers. Furthermore, imprecise data are presented in many real world applications. Therefore, the current paper proposes an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the revenue efficiency of sustainable supply...

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Organizational Form and the Market for Talent

This article brings together the market for products, the market for talent, and firms’ organizational form. While the organizational design determines the allocation of blame and fame within the firm, the value of a good reputation depends on the market structure. Consequently, the market structure dictates the optimal organizational design. If competition becomes tougher and the market thicke...

The Medicare DRGs: Efficiency and Organizational Rationality

Toward a Strategic Model of the Franchise Form of Business Organization

As an organizational form, franchising has evolved to the point where it now accounts for 38% of all retail sales in the U.S. This unqualified success of the franchise form can be attributed to its inherent strategic advantages. The most central of these strategic advantages is economies of scale. But scale, and the ensuing spatial preemption, are only attained through the acquisition of extern...