The purpose of this paper is to explore two questions: how do institutions affect knowledge transfer in social franchises Africa, and does training help respond these challenges? Despite advances the management literature, our understanding role franchising remains inadequate. Using qualitative induction methodology, we examine a franchise network operating Africa. Our findings suggest that dif...

BACKGROUND The private sector plays a large role in health services delivery in low- and middle-income countries; yet significant gaps remain in the quality and accessibility of private sector services. Clinical social franchising, which applies the commercial franchising model to achieve social goals and improve health care, is increasingly used in developing countries to respond to these limi...

In this paper, the shift into international franchising from other forms of operation, rather than the typical home market franchising base, is explored. The focus is international retail franchising, based on a study of the Danish clothing and footwear industry. In this study it was found that Danish companies were moving into international franchising as an outcome of a more general shift fro...

The aim of this research was to explore the dimensions of franchisor and franchisee power and control in the franchising relationship in the Australian franchising sector. In a franchising arrangement the franchisee is heavily dependent on the franchisor, particularly in the early stages where the learning curve is steep. It is generally agreed that the franchisor wields the most power, althoug...

We study a setting in which a principal contracts with an agent to operate a firm over an infinite time horizon when the agent is liquidity constrained and privately observes the sequence of cost realizations. We formulate the principal’s problem as a dynamic program in which the state variable is the agent’s continuation utility, which is naturally interpreted as his equity in the firm. The op...

Abstract Although it is widely accepted that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) improves firm performance, scholars have advised particular attention should be paid to the context. In this research, we investigate a less explored context of franchising where business systems and procedures are usually dictated franchisees by franchisors. Therefore, whether franchisor allow pursue EO (innovativene...