Outlet ownership in franchising systems: an agency based approach
Sudhindra Seshadri
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Sudhindra Seshadri: Indian School of Business, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India, Postal: Indian School of Business, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India
Managerial and Decision Economics, 2002, vol. 23, issue 6, 355-369
Abstract:
Building on prior agency theoretic explanations of the franchisor-franchisee relationship, this paper introduces the franchise system manager in the traditional dyadic channel. This allows us to link the franchisors internal agency problems of providing incentives to managers to their external agency problems of acquiring and extracting rents from franchisees. I find preliminary empirical support for this approach in a structural equations model estimated on a franchise system data set. I then develop and analyze an agency-theoretic model with agency tradeoffs. An explicit rationale for mixed ownership in franchising emerges from the model, where the share of company owned outlets is endogenously determined as the tradeoff between franchisee rents and managerial compensation. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1002/mde.1073
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