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South African fast food franchise industry's use of project management, towards a franchise project management course

Maree, Petrus Johannes Hermanus - 2007

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The business format, franchising, can be defined as "the granting of a licence for a predetermined … financial return by a franchising company (franchisor) to its franchisees. The grant entitles them to make use of a complete …, p4 as cited by Altinay, L. 2004)Franchising as a business model can be seen in essence as a proven business model that …

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Competition In or For the Field: Which Is Better?

Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.; Fischer, Ronald; Galetovic, Alexander - 2002

In many circumstances, a principal, who wants prices to be as low as possible, must contract with agents who would like to charge the monopoly price. This paper compares a Demsetz auction, which awards an exclusive contract to the agent bidding the lowest price (competition for the field) with...

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CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS IN THE

Hosany, Feroz - 2011

This research report evaluates the critical success factors in the relationship ofmulti-national franchises as identified by authors in franchise systems.Specifically, this research seeks to validate the critical success factors in therelationship between multi-national Franchisors and...

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The allocation of decision rights and the role of private enforcement in franchising

Cochet, Olivier - 2006

Durchsetzung partnerschaftlichen Verhaltens des Entscheidungsträgers) schließt eine Lücke in der Franchising-Literatur, da diese …

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The influence of network design on firm performance

Meiseberg, Brinja - 2010

Von den Entwicklungen, die das Wirtschaftsleben in den letzten Jahren wegweisend geprägt haben, erreichen wenige eine solche Bedeutung wie das Phänomen der „Netzwerke“. Die Ubiquität von Netzwerken auf branchen-, unternehmensbezogenen, wie individuellen Ebenen bedingt zunehmend eine...

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“Crossing over”: appropriate private sector principles, to operate more reliable public sector water services

Wall, K - 2008

alleviate andaddress many challenges in the management of water services. At the same time,franchising could provide an ideal … franchising include meter management, billing, plumbing, pressuremanagement, sewer maintenance, and wastewater treatment processes …

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The franchise decision and financial performance: an examination of restaurant firms

Hsu, Li-Tzang - 2007

In the last few decades, franchising has become a part of everyday life in the United States. Many firms in a variety … of industries have adopted franchising as a method of doing business. Despite the importance of franchising, the … literature on why firms initially choose to franchise and how franchising affects financial performance has been scant (Combs et …

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Strategic Opportunity Management

Junge, Philip - 2009

Today we live in a world that is characterized by a constantly changing environment. During the last decade, this highly volatile environment forced companies to implement strategies that identify, track and minimise the risks that entrepreneurial activity entails. Unfortunately, risks only...

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Evolution of alliance networks and resources of firms in telecommunications and information technology industries

Naujok, Nils - 2003

Informed by the resource-based view of the firm and the strategic network theory, this thesis describes seven cases studies from the information technology and telecommunications industries. Proposed hypotheses cover three research questions on the dynamic aspects of the mentioned theoretical...

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