Rondan-Cataluña, Francisco Javier; Navarro-Garcia, Antonio - In: The Service Industries Journal 32 (2010) 6, pp. 861-882
The main aim of this work consists of studying and analysing the reasons that drive firms to expand by means of the franchise route. A methodology based on latent class regression has been used, in order to explain the number of franchised units from a set of variables related to the adhesion...