The purpose of this study is to examine and demonstrate the strategic investment decisions faced by Taiwan's chain and franchise store enterprise. We show that incorporating an abandonment option to strategic timing in a game-theoretic real option approach makes the approach more complete and...

Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...