Search Results - subject:"plural form"

Organizational form and efficiency of franchise chains

Piot-Lepetit, Isabelle; Perrigot, Rozenn; Cliquet, Gérard - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2014

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new model allowing the implementation of a benchmarking process that jointly measure the efficiency of franchise chains and determine their optimal organizational form. The methodology is based on a non-econometric technique developed by management...

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Organizational choices and financial performance: the case of company-owned stores, franchisee-owned stores and stores-within-a-store among French fashion retailers

Amadieu, Paul; Picot-Coupey, Karine; Viviani, Jean-Laurent - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2013

This paper deals with the governance and financial performance issues in the context of French Fashion retail companies. In this study, we analyze the influence of the organizational choices on the financial performance at the network level. We consider three forms used in isolation...

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THE CURRENT DYNAMIC OF NEUTER GENDER IN ROMANIAN

Pavel, Anca-Andreea - In: Buletin Stiintific - Scientific Bulletin 21 (2012), pp. 327-334

The choice of the topic is motivated by the observation of the ambiguities that arise in current Romanian language, the only Romance language that has preserved the neuter gender from Latin (in French, Spanish and Italian, there is no neuter gender). Will it disappear from Romanian too?...

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Determinants of E-commerce adoption by franchisors: Insights from the U.S. market

Perrigot, Rozenn; Pénard, Thierry - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2012

E-commerce has grown tremendously over the past decade. This paper focuses on E-commerce adoption within the franchising sector. We formulate various hypotheses on the factors that influence the adoption of an E-commerce strategy by franchisors, namely the percentage of company-owned stores in...

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Plural Form and Franchise Chains Efficency: A Dea Meta-Frontier Approach applied to French Chains

Perrigot, Rozenn; Piot-Lepetit, Isabelle; Cliquet, Gérard - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2012

This paper deals with the performance of franchise chains related to their percentage of company-owned outlets (PCO). This research uses a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess franchise chains’ efficiency, and a meta-frontier approach to analyze chains’ efficiency between and across...

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Decision Structures in Franchise Systems of the Plural Form

Kranz, Sebastian; Lewin-Solomons, Shira B. - 2008

Many successful franchise chains directly own a positive fraction of stores --- a structure referred to as plural form …

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Decision Structures in Franchise Systems of the Plural Form

Kranz, Sebastian; Lewin-Solomons, Shira B. - University of Bonn, Germany - 2008

Many successful franchise chains directly own a positive fraction of stores --- a structure referred to as plural form …

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Plural franchise organizations

Spranger, Georg - 2006

Diese Arbeit untersucht die strategischen Beweggründe von Franchisegebern, innerhalb eines vertikalen Vertriebssystems dauerhaft sowohl Franchisen als auch Filialen einzusetzen. Wie sich zeigt, ist die Verwendung einer so genannten pluralen Form theoretisch mit den folgenden spezifischen...

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Plural Form in Franchising: An Incomplete Contracting Approach

Hendrikse, Hendrikse, G.W.J.; Jiang, Jiang, T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

Plural form franchising is modeled from an incomplete contracting perspective. Complete franchising is the unique …, efficient governance structure only when the plural form externality is limited and the costs of investment are low for both … franchisee will invest. Finally, a plural form governance structure is the unique, efficient equilibrium in all other cases …

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Plural Form in Franchising: An Incomplete Contracting Approach

Hendrikse, G.W.J.; Jiang, T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2005

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