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Automating Response Evaluation for Franchising Questions on the 2017 Economic Census
Staudt, Joseph - 2019
Between the 2007 and 2012 Economic Censuses (EC), the count of franchise-affiliated establishments declined by 9.8%. One reason for this decline was a reduction in resources that the Census Bureau was able to dedicate to the manual evaluation of survey responses in the franchise section of the...
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Are Franchises Bad Employers?
Cappelli, Peter - 2007
Franchise jobs are often described as representing the epitome of the "low road" approach to managing employees: high turnover, little training, deskilled jobs, and little employee involvement, practices often seen as unsophisticated. Research on franchise operations suggests, however, that the...
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The Role of Residual Claims and Self-Enforcement in Franchise Contracting
Lafontaine, Francine - 2002
Much of the economic literature on franchising has been concerned with incentive issues and how these are managed in …
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Targeting Managerial Control : Evidence from Franchising
Lafontaine, Francine - 2001
Using an extensive longitudinal data set on franchising firms, we show that established franchisors manage their …
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International Franchising : Evidence from US and Canadian Franchisors in Mexico
Lafontaine, Francine - 2001
empirical literature on franchising, mostly due to data limitations. We exploit a newly assembled data set that allows us not … that this tendency is probably best explained by the same arguments used in the franchising literature to explain contract …
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Least-Present-Value-of-Revenue Auctions and Highway Franchising
Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 1998
In recent years several countries have started massive highway franchising programs auctioned to private firms. In …
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Incentive Contracting and the Franchise Decision
Lafontaine, Francine - 1998
We examine theoretical predictions and econometric evidence concerning franchise contracting and sales-force compensation and suggest a number of factors that ought to influence the contracts that are written between principles and agents. For each factor, we construct the simplest theoretical...
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The Characteristics of Multi-Unit Ownership in Franchising : Evidence from Fast-Food Restaurants in Texas
Kalnins, Arturs - 1996
One empirical phenomenon that has received little attention in the franchising literature is the tendency for … individual franchisees to own not just one but several units of a given franchised chain. Most current theories of franchising … franchising is not a strategic delegation device, and that the location of units is not determined by the franchisee's desire to …
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The Dynamics of Franchise Contracting : Evidence from Panel Data
Lafontaine, Francine - 1996
to refute a number of existing theories of franchising that are based on risk-sharing, asymmetric information, and …
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Pricing Decisions in Franchised Chains : A Look at the Restaurant and Fast-Food Industry
Lafontaine, Francine - 1995
chains in the metropolitan Pittsburgh and Detroit areas, that there is price dispersion in fast-food franchising. I then show … that the amount of price dispersion relates to the amount of franchising in a way that suggests that 1) franchisors are not …
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