States and the federal government have enacted laws intended to police franchisors' use of termination provisions in franchise contracts to opportunistically take over profitable establishments. This regulation may, however, reduce the total number of chain outlets because franchising is a...

Most of the work on jurisdictional competition for business associations has focused on publicly held corporations and the factors that have led to Delaware's dominant position in attracting out of state firms. Is there an analogous jurisdictional competition to attract formations by closely...