What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across
countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a …

Inequalities abound in the US economy, and a central driver in recent decades is the
widening gap between the hourly compensation of a typical (median) worker and …

This article investigates the value of business format franchising and how it is changing in
response to a large increase in consumer information provided by online reputation …

This paper draws on the dynamic capabilities approach to explain the performance of
franchised chains. This approach is a useful lens to understand why some chains are more …

Despite its importance, positioning has not received due attention in the business-to-
business (B2B) context. Using franchising as the B2B context, this study identifies the …

Purpose–The present paper aims to analyze how the performance of hotels located on the
Spanish Mediterranean coast (peninsular and Balearic) and Canary coast is affected by the …

This article considers the rapid spread of chain firms in many industries. The conventional
explanation is that chains generate economies of scale in costs. Alternatively, the structure …

There have been important contributions to the literature on franchising in recent years, but
many interesting questions have received less attention than they deserve. In this paper, I …

We analyze the effect of a shared brand name, such as geographically designated
agricultural brands, on incentives of otherwise autonomous firms of the same type to …

Operational efficiency in the retail business is vital in order to be profitable in a competitive
environment. This paper investigates how environmental factors, firm size and time trends …