In the retail industry, store expansion has always been the main practice of franchisers in increasing their market share and profitability. However, simply expanding the store quantities to maintain one’s competitive advantages does not always assure success nowadays. Instead, service innovation has become the key strategy to stay on the lead. Since the franchise industry of convenience stores...

BACKGROUND This review investigates the effectiveness of interventions aimed at generating demand for and use of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services by young people; and interventions aimed at generating wider community support for their use. METHODS Reports and publications were found in the peer-reviewed and grey literature through academic search engines; web searches; the biblio...

Franchising has long been a method by which organizations seek to expand and facilitate local market development. However, franchising as growth strategy can often be hampered lack of suitable franchisees. To mitigate this shortage, some franchisors have engaged in recruiting franchisees internally from the ranks their employees addition traditional approach externally. Predominantly are indivi...