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Management of Franchising Networks: Seven Principles for Fair Franchise Advisory Councils

2019
Franchise Advisory Councils (FACs) form an important managerial instrument for franchisors to create and/or maintain franchisees’ trust in the fair and effective functioning of their franchising networks. We build on procedural fairness theory and insights from articles in trade journals to develop a theoretical framework with seven core principles ...
Croonen, Evelien, Bleeker, Ivo
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Performance in franchising networks

2017
International ...
Chaudey, Magali, Fadairo, Muriel
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Franchising Networks Control System

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
As we wonder about the possibility of transposing the classical model of organizational control in the specific context of franchise networks through its key dimensions (legitimacy, mission, structure, strategy), the current article focused on the construction of a research model describing the control system implemented in this type of organizational ...
Wafa Mseddi, Abdelfettah Bouri
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Centralization of franchising networks: evidence from the Austrian franchise sector

Journal of Business Research, 2004
Based on the property rights approach, residual decision rights in franchising networks must be allocated according to the distribution of intangible knowledge assets between the franchisor and franchisee. Our analysis follows from this hypothesis: the more important the franchisor's system-specific assets for the generation of residual surplus, the ...
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Franchising proportion and network failure

Small Business Economics, 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between franchising proportion of a network and firm failure. Drawing from resource scarcity and agency theories, we show that franchising firms that overfranchise and do not structure their networks in congruence with these two theories have lower survival prospects.
Melih Madanoglu, Gary J. Castrogiovanni
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Virtual Communities and Social Networking in Franchising

International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2018
Franchising has been a popular approach to growing a business. Its popularity continues to increase, as we witness an emergence of a new business model Netchising or Online-to-Offline, combining the Internet for global demand-and-supply, virtual communities, and social networking processes and the international franchising arrangement for local ...
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Control and Performance in Franchising Networks

2017
The aim of the study is to examine the determinants of franchisor performance by focusing on the moderating role of control as transaction cost savings and value-creating mechanism. In line with resource-based view, we argue that intangible resources of the franchisor (brand name) and the intangible resources of the franchisees (local market knowledge,
Hajdini, Ilir, Klapper, Helge, Rommer, Paulus, Windsperger, Josef   +3 more
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The governance of franchising networks

2013
The aim of the chapter is to provide an overview and comparison of major research results regarding the governance structure of franchising networks based on different theoretical perspectives. In addition, I focus on the contribution the property rights theory can make to the franchise literature.
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Control in franchising networks

2011
Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit untersucht die Wahl der „Governance“-Methoden in Franchise-Netzwerken. Die Transaktionskostentheorie, die Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie sowie die Theorie der Ressourcenknappheit, bilden die theoretische Basis für die empirische Untersuchung und Entwicklung von den Hypothesen.
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Interfirm Networks

2015
The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on ...
Windsperger, J., Cliquet, Gérard, Ehrmann, Thomas, Hendrikse, G.   +3 more
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