the role of franchising for business growth, job creation, and economic development has been widely recognized around the world. to our knowledge, however, no research has been conducted to investigate franchise practices in iran. the purpose of this study was to investigate franchisor franchisee relationship and franchisees’ buying behavior using structural equation modeling, in tehran provinc...

Dual distribution in franchising is addressed from an incomplete contracting perspective. We explicitly model cooperative (dual distribution) franchising as an organizational form, next to wholly-owned, wholly-franchised, and dual distribution franchise systems. Key conclusions of the model are: (1) dual distribution as an efficient governance mechanism does not depend on heterogeneous downstre...

The present article contains an analysis of differences between licensing and franchising. It is demonstrated that models of royalty rate calculation developed for licensing should not be applied to franchising as benefits received by licensee and franchisee are different. It is proposed to include in the model of royalty calculation the risk reduction generated by franchisor’s effective techno...

The article is devoted to the analysis of theoretical foundations for determining legal nature commercial concession contract (franchising) and its features. An current legislation regarding determination was carried out. It argued that issues remain debatable today. In addition, institution franchising in Ukraine needs a thorough rethinking significant reformation, both theoretically practical...

The Indonesian state system is a prosperous country where safe, comfortable and peaceful society the benchmark. Welfare development supported by economic in business sector, one of which franchise business. Franchise venture that provides benefits for parties involved agreement. agreements are regulated general Civil Code, Government Regulations Minister Commerce governing franchising. like Cod...

BACKGROUND The private sector plays a large role in health services delivery in low- and middle-income countries; yet significant gaps remain in the quality and accessibility of private sector services. Clinical social franchising, which applies the commercial franchising model to achieve social goals and improve health care, is increasingly used in developing countries to respond to these limi...

This study investigates the role of exploration and exploitation capabilities for the franchisor’s choice of multi-unit franchising. According to the organizational capabilities view, multi-unit franchising increases the franchise firm’s organizational capabilities (such as exploitation capabilities, consisting of coordination, control and knowledge transfer capabilities, and exploration or inn...

In this paper, the shift into international franchising from other forms of operation, rather than the typical home market franchising base, is explored. The focus is international retail franchising, based on a study of the Danish clothing and footwear industry. In this study it was found that Danish companies were moving into international franchising as an outcome of a more general shift fro...