...Jacques Boulay; Barbara Caemmerer; Odile Chanut; Chaudey Magali; Muriel Fadairo Purpose The authors conduct a structured analysis of the literature on the determinants of economic and financial franchise performance and develop an integrative framework that unifies the literature from franchisor...

...Carlos M.P. Sousa; Filipe Coelho; Susana C. Silva Purpose The creativity of retail employees seems to be of the utmost importance for ensuring the performance of organizations in service settings. This paper contributes to the existing theory by investigating the direct and indirect effects...

... and comparative performance of franchise contracts. It empirically confirms the importance of RBT in explaining contractual choices and performance. Resource-based theory Performance Safeguarding Transaction costs theory Contract length Knowledge leverage Organizational governance choices matter...

... in franchising research. While signaling theory is growing in importance in the franchising literature, this study is the first to uncover the relationship between company signals and initial public offering. IPO Franchising Performance Key success factors Going public Stock market listing...

...Ismail Abushaikha; Loay Salhieh; Neil Towers There exists a positive relationship between warehouse waste reduction level and both warehouse operational performance and distribution performance. There was no direct relationship between warehouse waste reduction level and business...

...Laura Macchion; Antonella Maria Moretto; Federico Caniato; Maria Caridi; Pamela Danese; Andrea Vinelli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether the adoption of e-commerce improves company business, innovation and operational performance and whether sales internationalisation might...

... more products of higher quality and striving for better distribution mechanisms. Interestingly there does not seem to be much attention for the quality of the internal supermarket organisation, i.e. quality of people, internal processes, and performance reporting. Thus there seems to be a gap in both...

.../methodology/approach – The methodology is based on a non-econometric technique developed by management scientists on economic concepts for evaluating the performance of decision-making units and implementing a benchmarking process. An extended model is developed in the paper for evaluating the efficiency...

... in the European Union: Structures, Competition and Performance . London : Routledge   2003 . , ISBN: 0 415 25742 5 Retailing European Union Competition Performance Retailing in the European Union is an edited volume of chapters covering a number of EU member states: Denmark...