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Franchisee autonomy: a key to a successful franchising?
2017
International audience; The relationships between franchisors and franchisees are more dependent on relational and psychological contracts, emerging in a day to day life of the franchise, than from the legal contract. But a few studies are devoted to the organisation of decisions between franchisors and franchisee, or franchisee autonomy. To better understand these relations, we studied the franchise context and existing literature. Then we performed a qualitative analysis among franchise experts, franchisors and franchisees. We carried out semi-directive interviews with 13 franchisees, 5 franchisors and 11 franchise experts and, after a first phase of reading with a floating attention, we …
Franchisors' disclosure duty: market transparency and franchisee protection
2014
The franchisee is usually the most vulnerable part of the franchise relationship, and should therefore receive greater protection from the legal framework. In this regard, the franchisor's pre-contractual disclosure duty has evolved in its legal status. Whereas its original purpose was to ensure transparency in the market, it now serves to protect the franchisee. In this paper, we compare the franchisor's obligations established by the legal framework in Spain with those set out in the Model Law drawn up by The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law.
Understanding franchisee performance : The role of the franchisee’s autonomy, affective commitment to the network and innovativeness
2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of participative franchising on performance from the franchisee perspective. In particular, the paper analyses the impact of the franchisee autonomy – in human resource management and marketing decisions – affective commitment to the network and network innovativeness on the franchisee relative performance. Design/methodology/approach A survey answered by 226 franchisees in France allowed to estimate a structural equations model through partial least squares regression analysis to test the hypothesised relations between autonomy, affective commitment, innovativeness and performance. Findings According to the authors’ findings, …
Franczyzobiorca: między konsumentem a przedsiębiorcą. Mity o regulacji franczyzy
2022
Niniejsze opracowanie odnosi się do zagadnienia dyskusji nad uregulowaniem franczyzy w Polsce. W skazano w nim na potencjalne obszary regulacji, jak również, że kluczowe znaczenie ma uregulowanie obowiązków przedkontraktowych organizatora sieci franczyzowej. Obecnie kandydat na franczyzobiorcę - jako konsument - powinien korzystać z minimum ochrony konsumenckiej. Dalej odniesiono się do praw i obowiązków stron umowy, uregulowania deliktów nieuczciwej konkurencji. Osobno został przedstawiony pomysł wprowadzenia reżimu zakazu praktyk naruszających zbiorowe interesy franczyzobiorców