The field of retailing has experienced significant changes in recent years. In this article, we
review articles published in Journal of Retailing over the 2002–2007 time span, classified …

Franchising is a popular and multifaceted business arrangement that has attracted
considerable research attention. Past inquiry has focused on franchising's antecedents …

Marketing channels are among the most important elements of any value chain. This is
because the bulk of a nation's manufacturing output flows through them. The intermediaries …

Plural form tends to be the most popular organization form in retail and service networks
compared to purely franchised or purely company-owned systems. In the first part, this paper …

This brief paper summarizes the swee** changes taking place within the North American
franchising reality and extols franchising researchers to venture forth into novel arenas of …

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In order for a franchise system to obtain long-term sustainability, balancing the benefits
between franchisors and franchisees is critically important. In order to expand this area of …

For decades, most franchising research leveraged one of three theoretical milestones—
resource scarcity, agency theory, and plural form symbiosis—to answer questions about …

This paper explores social processes between franchisees as a way to control franchisee
opportunism. Based on the literature of socio‐psychological and interorganizational …

This research examines the evolution of interorganizational relationships in a franchising
context. Using U-curve theory, we develop three hypotheses and contrast them with …