Within the wide literature regarding franchising, a few studies were devoted to the adverse selection phenomena in the … concluded that the signaling framework is not well adapted to study franchising. However, most of the empirical literature has … focused on developed countries. This empirical paper deals with the case of Brazil. We estimate on recent franchising data a …

the upstream firm. The analytical part of the paper surveys the vast literature devoted to franchising and to dual …

This paper deals with the relationships between plural form and performance in franchising networks in Europe. It is … performance. The model has been estimated using panel data on 41 publicly listed European franchising networks in the 1998 …

Swedish firm. Applying institutional theory and the concept of legitimacy, we try to shed new light on the firm process of … the effect of these actions on the development and legitimacy for the radical idea. We find that when an idea lack top …

legitimacy. Lastly, some suggestions are offered to address the discrepancies between these writing norms and more recent …

education is confronted with an additional challenge: building political legitimacy. We analyze the "extreme case" study of … education landscape. This is the first article dealing with the topic of legitimacy acquisition processes, with the aim of …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the sources of legitimacy of the producing organizations of accounting … legitimacy and analyses the legitimacy of the International Standard Accounting Board (IASB). …

build legitimacy by shaping identity with university academics and management. In undertaking this research we draw on 63 … complement and reinforce preliminary legitimacy claims made through conformance and manipulation. We discuss the potential …