Typical contracts assign both coercive and non-coercive means of power to the principal's side, providing the agent with a comparably small range of countervailing anti-power. Initially agents are therefore vulnerable to opportunistic principal behavior and will rationally anticipate this threat...

Early research work theorized franchising to exist because Hybridal Form Benefits (HFB) are achieved by the franchisor. Compared to the full hierarchy, franchising was held to reduce agency costs, to overcome resource scarcity and to enable risk sharing. Lately, the focus has shifted to an...

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...

Typical contracts assign both coercive and non-coercive means of power to the principal's side, providing the agent with a comparably small range of countervailing anti-power. Initially agents are therefore vulnerable to opportunistic principal behavior and will rationally anticipate this threat...

Typical contracts assign both coercive and non-coercive means of power to the principal's side, providing the agent with a comparably small range of countervailing anti-power. Initially agents are therefore vulnerable to opportunistic principal behavior and will rationally anticipate this threat...

This paper reviews the most important aspects that students of economics and of business administration should focus on when beginning their career as authors of scientific papers. The author, a PhD-candidate at the University of Muenster, Germany, draws from personal experience as a reviewer...