Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54442 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Citation: 
[Journal:] Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa (IEDEE) [ISSN:] 1135-2523 [Volume:] 14 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2008 [Pages:] 185-210
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
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 themselves through own and franchised units, in this context, this work intends to determine what kinds of units are more efficient. Own and franchised units are compared by the following indexes: sales per employee, sales per establishment and employees per establishment. As performances measures has been used: ROI (return on investment), incomes and ordinary results. This field of research has not been developed in Spain and scantly treated in the scientific international literature.
Subjects: 
franchise system
franchised units
own units
eficiency
agency theory
resource scarcity theory
extension risk theory
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Article

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