Collaboration, coordination, and cooperation lie at the core of interorganizational activities.
To address the confusion regarding the definitions of these three terms, recent works have …

This study reviews the franchising literature on emerging markets. We used the Bibliometrix
R-package and VOSviewer software to perform a bibliometric analysis of 297 articles …

Albeit scholars have conducted international franchising research for over two decades, our
understanding of the antecedents and outcomes of this particular type of internationalization …

Tournament theory is useful for describing behavior when reward structures are based on
relative rank rather than absolute levels of output. Accordingly, management scholars have …

Interorganizational relationships (IORs) encompass a broad array of collaborative
exchanges, including strategic alliances, joint ventures, buyer—supplier agreements …

Organizational performance is widely recognized as an important–if not the most important–
construct in strategic management research. Researchers also agree that organizational …

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 …

Purpose Contemporary supply chain relationships inherently rely on delegation of work
between organizations and, thus, are subject to agency problems for which a wide range of …

This article examines the relevance of the two main theories used to understand business
format franchising—resource scarcity theory and agency theory—for social venture …

This study contributes to the strategic alliance literature by providing a comprehensive
review of over 800 articles that have appeared in 22 leading management journals over a …