The Malaysian Parliament had enacted the Franchise Act in 1998 and one of main purposes this is to monitor registration regulate franchise businesses Malaysia ensure that all are following laws regulation. Registration franchisor (including foreign franchisor) franchisee has been stated section 6 6B 1998. However, silent whether a business mandatory. Meanwhile, next issue an unregistered establ...

Although Burger King and McDonald’s are widely recognized as direct competitors, there may be enough differences in customer profiles between the two chains to recommend or justify divergent location strategies. In this regard, the authors use ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression to test whether site and trade-area criteria can explain individual store sales and if such criteria are consiste...

Higher education in developing countries presents an opportunity both for investment and development, if specific challenges can be overcome. This article looks at the opportunities for higher education in a developing country, Kenya, and how these experiences have enabled an identification of issues that must be dealt with for higher education to grow both as an investment and capacity-buildin...

This paper deals with the language used to express legal speech acts in simple contracts within the field of English Contract Law. The central objects of study are regulative functions, i.e. directive and commissive speech acts with a particular view to establishing realisation patterns of these rhetorical functions. The hypothesis that the speech acts subjected to analysis are homogeneously di...

Automobile dealers in the United States face severe structural changes. Consolidation is occurring as superstores and mall outlets increase in numbers. Publicly traded companies buy up independent dealers and establish chains of stores. The Internet is emerging as a major channel for model comparison and dealer choice. Against this background the present study assesses the likely impact on Japa...