In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Georgia v. Ashcroft, 539 U.S. 461 (hereinafter, “Ashcroft”), interpreting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act as it related to the 2001 Georgia redistricting, and in so doing, changed the face of the Voting Rights Act. Prior to Ashcroft, redistrictings in jurisdictions subject to Section 5 were analyzed according to the standard enunciated in B...

The ownership redirection thesis within franchising governance research stream, originally proposed by Oxenfeldt and Kelly (1968), argued that successful, resource-flush franchise systems will ultimately tend toward becoming wholly company-owned systems due to opportunistic reacquisition activity by the powerful franchisors. For nearly forty years this dark prophecy has precipitated an intense ...

The present article looks at the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and role of digital games from conceptual framework transmedia storytelling its relation to ludo mix. We offer a historical account in development “the Gundam” series portfolio perspective, show how combination various types game genres, or otherwise ‘ludo mix’, played enhancing franchise’s convergent divergent strategies, which cont...

Mathematical models of inventory-distribution routing problem for two-echelon agriculture products distribution network are established, which are based on two management modes, franchise chain and regular chain, one-to-many, interval periodic order, demand depending on inventory, deteriorating treatment cost of agriculture products, start-up costs of vehicles and so forth.Then, a heuristic ada...

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events happening in neighboring countries. We investigate the relationship between this new measure of the threat...

Purpose: Since the beginning of the new health care reform in 2009, the state has illustrated the top design and health care improvement strategy of "encouraging social capital to participate in the reform of public hospitals", in accordance with the program's general objective. All areas have been explored on this matter and the results obtained are very interesting, not to mention the acquisi...

The franchise is considered as a model to follow that can be adopted by different companies, considering restaurant place offer their services and food products important processes are standardized, the objective toapply system in fast restaurants, so they reflected process manual. research was bibliographic, descriptive exploratory. inductive method used since it arises from general conclusion...