Purpose This paper aims to provide a bibliometric meta-analysis of the already substantial
and growing literature on international franchising. Franchising is a model for businesses to …

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Although uncovering the factors that lead firms to offer franchises has long been a central
goal of franchising research, considerable ambiguity surrounds extant findings. In an effort to …

A study of 439 franchisors was conducted to identify factors influencing changes in their
propensity to franchise. Consistent with agency theory, franchisors with wide multinational …

This field study investigated contextual antecedents of free riding by franchisees on
franchisor brand reputation and effects of free riding on performance in a multinational …

This paper offers a property rights theoretical interpretation of the ownership redirection
hypothesis advanced by Oxenfeldt and Kelly [Oxenfeldt, Alfred R. and Kelly, Anthony …

Purpose–The internationalisation of large multinational retailers is well documented and
much research attention has been given to their motives and strategies for expansion. Yet …

Franchising has significantly affected the US economy, contributing to a rapid growth of its
retail sales. To identify whether franchising influences a restaurant firm's financial …

This paper explores the phenomenon of plural forms (ie, the simultaneous coexistence of
franchised and company‐owned outlets, operationally, the proportion of company‐owned …

In order for a franchise system to obtain long-term sustainability, balancing the benefits
between franchisors and franchisees is critically important. In order to expand this area of …