Early meta‐analyses in management research sought primarily to resolve seemingly conflicting findings by estimating a relationship’s population‐level effect size. Since then, management researchers have adopted increasingly sophisticated approaches that permit new theorizing, testing and...

The factors that influence franchisors' propensity tofranchise are investigated. Although most studies rely on either resourcescarcity or agency theory to generate hypotheses, the hypotheses in this studyare grounded in both perspectives. The first three hypotheses predict thatyounger, smaller...