The preoccupation to consider the heterogeneity in firm behavior within an activity sector has been one of the main reasons for the search and identification of strategic groups, generating an inexhaustible debate in the scope of the strategic management. Nevertheless, this preoccupation has not...

Franchising system continues its unstoppable advance worldwide, as in the most commercially developed countries as in those that have some more antiquated commercial structures. For that reason, nowadays, this is an important research topic in the business area. Franchising chains expand...

Franchising system continues its unstoppable advance worldwide, as in the most commercially developed countries as in those that have some more antiquated commercial structures. For that reason, nowadays, this is an important research topic in the business area. Franchising chains expand...

The study of the factors that have an influence on firm's export performance is one of the more fruitful lines of research in international marketing literature. However, there is no agreement among the researchers about which ones are the determinants that have an influence on the results of...