The design and management of interfirm networks has become a very important research field both in economics and management in the last two decades. The current book presents new theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the design and management of franchise networks, cooperatives,...

Trust is an important topic in franchising research. However, research has neglected franchisees' trust in their fellow franchisees or "peers" within the network ("peer trust"). Peer trust may facilitate cooperation among franchisees and hence increase unit or network performance. However, it...

Franchise Advisory Councils (FACs) form an important managerial instrument for franchisors to create and/or maintain franchisees’ trust in the fair and effective functioning of their franchising networks. We build on procedural fairness theory and insights from articles in trade journals to...

This paper proposes and develops a decision model that allows fast-food restaurants to be located in urban areas. This decision model starts by preselecting a city as the study area, calculates the centre of gravity of the points of interest that positively affect the restaurant’s demand in...

Though horizon and portfolio problems are commonly thought to limit cooperatives' ability to capitalize on investment opportunities, empirical inquiry into the existence of these constraints is sparse, and recent conceptual arguments suggest that the horizon problem in particular may be less...

Members of cooperatives are becoming increasingly diverse and heterogeneous. Scholars have argued that this is problematic for cooperatives. Therefore, one might expect that many members leave the cooperative. However, this conclusion does not fit with the reality in which cooperatives continue...