Advertising strategies in a franchise system
The main question of this research is: Who should undertake promotional and brand-image advertising if the franchisor and franchisees act so as to maximize their respective profits? To address this question, we study a two-stage advertising game between a franchisor and two adjacent franchisees. In the first stage of the game, the franchisor chooses between three advertising models - centralizing or delegating the two types of advertising to the franchisees or delegating only promotional advertising. In the second stage, given the franchisor's choice of an advertising model, the two franchisees decide whether or not to cooperate. Our main findings are that (1) the franchisees should cooperate if the franchisor delegates either both brand-image and promotional advertising or promotional advertising, although cooperation between franchisees does not necessary improve the franchisor's profits. (2) The choice of an advertising arrangement critically depends on the margins as well as the costs of performing both promotional and brand-image advertising. We also discuss the conditions under which the three advertising models should be implemented.
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2009
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Authors: | Sigué, Simon Pierre ; Chintagunta, Pradeep |
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European Journal of Operational Research. - Elsevier, ISSN 0377-2217. - Vol. 198.2009, 2, p. 655-665
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Game theory Marketing Franchising Cooperative advertising Horizontal cooperation |
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