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Franchisor Power as Employment Control

2021
Labor and employment laws are systematically underenforced in low-wage, franchised workplaces. Union contracts, and the benefits and protections they provide, are nonexistent. The Fight for Fifteen movement has brought attention to the low wages, systemic violations of workers’ rights, and lack of collective representation in fast-food franchises ...
Elmore, Andrew, Griffith, Kati L.
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When do Family-firm Franchisors Outperform nonfamily-firm Franchisors?

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014
Building on a resource-based logic and the notion that family firms are characterized by the enduring interaction of the family and the business that provides a distinctive bundle of resources to f...
Francesco Chirico, Dianne HB Welsh, R. Duane Ireland   +2 more
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Franchisor Types: Reexamination and Clarification

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1995
In a recent article, Carney and Gedajlovic (1991) broke ground by identifying five types of franchisors. The present study attempted to confirm Carney and Gedajlovic's findings on an independent sample and to determine whether types identified differed enough to warrant sample heterogeneity concerns in research not accounting for them.
Gary J. Castrogiovanni, Nathan Bennett, James G. Combs   +2 more
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Preparing to be a global franchisor

Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, 2012
AbstractFranchising has been a path to growth and expansion for thousands of U.S. companies over the past three decades. And it has also attracted a lot of attention in overseas markets. U.S.‐based franchisors are currently operating in more than 160 countries worldwide. In addition, there are successful overseas franchisors who have penetrated the U.S.
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What Makes Franchisees Trust Their Franchisors?

2013
A lack of trust of franchisees in their franchisor will negatively affect franchise system performance. However, very little is known about how franchisors can create and maintain franchisee trust. This paper presents a theoretical framework of antecedents of franchisees’ trust in their franchisors and franchise systems.
Croonen, E.P.M., Brand, M.J.
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Internationalisation by australian franchisors

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 1990
In this article the process of international entry by Australian franchisors is explored. A small number of Australian franchisors was examined — composed of those planning to internationalise as well as those which had already started international operations.
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The Influence of Gratitude on Franchisor-Franchisee Relationships

Journal of Small Business Management, 2016
Set within a franchising context that is an integral and significant component of the small business sector, this paper is the first attempt at modeling the sentiment of gratitude, a critical nascent relationship construct, as mediating the linkage between relational norms (as antecedents) and relationship quality constructs (as consequents). Data from
Weaven, S, Baker, BL, Dant, RP
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TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FRANCHISOR‐FRANCHISEE RELATIONSHIP

Journal of European Industrial Training, 1988
The franchising process is essentially an attempt to “reproduce” in another location, a successful “model”. As such, it is heavily dependent on the effective transfer of knowledge and skills from one location to another. The training and development process, then, is at the centre of attempts to ensure accurate “reproduction”. In this context, training
Helen LaVan, Ray W. Coye, Joseph C. Latona   +2 more
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Exploring the Franchisor-Franchisee Relationship

2018
In the past 40 years, the franchising system has undergone a remarkable expansion, increasingly retaining the attention of economy and service management researchers. A recurring question relates to the sources of competitive advantage that a franchise network may have.
Thierry Allègre, François Fulconis, Gilles Paché   +2 more
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THE SUPPORTIVE RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCHISOR AND FRANCHISEE

Marketing and Management Sciences, 2010
AbstractThis paper examines the supportive relations between the two contracting parts of the franchising system in the entrepreneurial activity. The reason for choosing to examine this factor is that franchising is considered to be a rather special kind of entrepreneurship, which has been rapidly developed in recent years, all over the world and ...
Isidoros, Klouvas, Alexandros, Papadimitrakis   +1 more
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