This article provides an overview of the development of franchising within Australia since its inception, with a particular focus over the last fifty years. It begins by discussing the introduction of some of the major individual franchise systems, and then examines the growth in numbers of...

It is commonly remarked that Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of many different economies around the world, but the extent to which such national trends form part of a quantifiable larger global pattern has rarely, if ever, been examined. It is not unusual to hear...