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Franchising Strategies and Performance

Franchising Strategies and Performance is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 3.4k research works in it since 1957. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of franchising, organizational learning, and chain performance, with a focus on entrepreneurial strategies, trust and compliance in franchise relationships, multi-unit ownership, and knowledge management. It delves into the impact of franchising in different markets and the role of agency theory in understanding franchise dynamics.

  • Franchising
  • Organizational Learning
  • Chain Performance
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy
  • Retail Contracting
  • International Markets
  • Trust and Compliance
  • Multi-Unit Ownership
  • Knowledge Management
  • Agency Theory
Research works
3.4k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
359
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Franchising Strategies and Performance

Which countries lead Franchising Strategies and Performance research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (90 and 53 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 90 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 53 works
  3. 3 Brazil 32 works
  4. 4 China 24 works
  5. 5 France 23 works
  6. 6 India 23 works
  7. 7 Germany 20 works
  8. 8 Malaysia 16 works
  9. 9 Spain 13 works
  10. 10 South Korea 13 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 29.4%Indonesia: 17.3%Brazil: 10.5%China: 7.8%6 others listed: 35.1%29%largest
United States90 · 29.4%Indonesia53 · 17.3%Brazil32 · 10.5%China24 · 7.8%6 others listed107 · 35.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Franchising Strategies and Performance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Bayer (Germany) publishes the most Franchising Strategies and Performance research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and München Klinik.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Bayer (Germany)Germany 7 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 6 works
  3. 3 München KlinikGermany 6 works
  4. 4 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 4 works
  5. 5 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 4 works
  6. 6 Tarumanagara UniversityIndonesia 4 works
  7. 7 Hanyang UniversitySouth Korea 3 works
  8. 8 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 3 works
  9. 9 University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeUnited States 3 works
  10. 10 Cornell UniversityUnited States 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Franchising Strategies and Performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Franchising Strategies and Performance include Haibo Liu and G. Tomas M. Hult.

  1. 1 Haibo Liu China 87k citations
  2. 2 G. Tomas M. Hult United States 76k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Franchising Strategies and Performance?

The most cited paper in Franchising Strategies and Performance is "Price, Authority, and Trust: From Ideal Types to Plural Forms" (Jeffrey L. Bradach, Robert G. Eccles, 1989), with 1,971 citations. Next come "The Acquisition, Transfer, and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations: Productivity in Franchises" (1,484) and "The choice of organizational form The case of franchising" (1,089).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Price, Authority, and Trust: From Ideal Types to Plural Forms Jeffrey L. Bradach, Robert G. Eccles · Annual Review of Sociology Aug 1989 1,971
2 The Acquisition, Transfer, and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations: Productivity in Franchises Eric D. Darr, Linda Argote, Dennis N Epple · Management Science Nov 1995 1,484
3 The choice of organizational form The case of franchising James A. Brickley, Frederick H. Dark · Journal of Financial Economics Jun 1987 1,089
4 Agency Relationships in Marketing: A Review of the Implications and Applications of Agency and Related Theories Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta, Orville C. Walker · Journal of Marketing Jul 1992 1,047
5 The Contributions of Industrial Organization To Strategic Management, Michael E. Porter · Academy of Management Review Oct 1981 981
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Where is Franchising Strategies and Performance research done?

The largest centres of Franchising Strategies and Performance research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Nairobi (Kenya), Seoul (South Korea) and São Paulo (Brazil).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 13 works
  2. 2 NairobiKenya 8 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 8 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 7 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 7 works
  6. 6 LeverkusenGermany 7 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 6 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 5 works
  9. 9 HamburgGermany 5 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 5 works
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Is Franchising Strategies and Performance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Franchising Strategies and Performance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Franchising Strategies and Performance over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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