Franchising is a system whereby franchisor organization distributes products and services while involving franchisee which uses the name of its brand concept business in return they pay fee.It strategy that has been implemented to enter into alien markets among other strategies. This study focused on influence franchising competitiveness hospitality firms hotel industry Kenya. Specific objectiv...

Private participation in road projects is increasing around the world. The most popular franchising mechanism is a concession contract, which allows a private firm to charge tolls to road users during a pre-determined period in order to recover its investments. Concessionaires are usually selected through auctions at which candidates submit bids for tolls, payments to the government, or minimum...

The Carneades Contract Format (CC-F) provides a flexible and extensible representation framework for legal contracts, which is capable of representing the text, the document structure and the semantics of legally binding agreements. The paper provides an overview about the CC-F, discusses the underlying design considerations, compares it with other solutions.

Although standards for B2B e-Commerce exist, business partners still need additional bilateral agreements and coding partner-specific adaptations of their applications. Most research is conducted in the area of IT-solutions to interconnect the systems. Less activities are directed towards a shared business logic that allows business servers to collaborate. UN/CEFACT’s business collaboration fra...

relations. The essence of franchising and its modern development is considered. concept network, importance inmodern forms international business are given the classification to main features carried out. existing opportunities forthe in Ukraine comparison with leading countries most effective realization potential for socio-economicdevelopment analyzed. as an model doing determined, requiremen...

Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average collateralizable housing wealth in a region delays...

In the biotechnology industry today, there are many business models for project commercialization. These models range from independent vertical integration to certain forms of collaboration with pharmaceutical companies to complete acquisitions of projects by the big pharmaceutical companies. In this thesis, we wanted to study commercialization strategies of several biotechnology companies. We ...