This study investigates the role of exploration and exploitation capabilities for the franchisor’s choice of multi-unit franchising. According to the organizational capabilities view, multi-unit franchising increases the franchise firm’s organizational capabilities (such as exploitation capabilities, consisting of coordination, control and knowledge transfer capabilities, and exploration or inn...

BACKGROUND Across the developing world health care services are most often delivered in the private sector and social franchising has emerged, over the past decade, as an increasingly popular method of private sector health care delivery. Social franchising aims to strengthen business practices through economies of scale: branding clinics and purchasing drugs in bulk at wholesale prices. While ...

The saturation of the domestic market is one of the factors which drive firms to expand their business to other markets. Franchising is one of the formats adopted by companies when establishing their internationalization strategy. Spain is a country where franchising is strongly consolidated. This degree of maturity means that many chains seek other countries in which to operate. This work's sp...

Article history: Received 3 March 2008 Received in revised form 12 May 2009 Accepted 12 May 2009 While the franchising literature has typically relied on agency theory, efficiency considerations may not fully explain decisions to expand through franchising or company ownership. In this study, I re-examine franchising decisions using insights from institutional theory. The key tenet of instituti...

Abstract Business consulting represents one of the most important activities in service economy, yet its contractual arrangements have rarely been analysed. Various scandals linked to professional recent times, such as accounting scandal surrounding German DAX-company, Wirecard, or ‘Luanda Leaks’, give reason for a closer look at this activity, well corresponding agreements. Additionally, regul...

Businesses are looking for different methods of cooperation, ways doing business, and forms business models. Small or medium-sized businesses that do not have a steady large income able to join as franchisee in fulfilling certain obligations under the franchise agreement concluded with enterprise, i.e., franchisor. Provided franchisor enterprise development strategy identifies new direction, na...

This study presents an organizational capability (OC) and transaction cost (TC) explanation for the franchisors’ choice between single-unit and multi-unit franchising. The OC-perspective regards the firm as a bundle of resources which are transformed into organizational capabilities through interactive firmspecific processes, in order to create competitive advantage. According to the OC-view, m...