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The aim of this thesis is to analyze franchising as a business method and look at it especially from legal point of view. In the first (theoretical) part of the thesis we mention the history of franchising, then we specifie the advantages and disadvanteges of franchising and we also look at the current situation of franchising in the Czech Republic and in the world economy as well. The rest of the theoretical part is devoted to the legal aspects of franchising. The theoretical part of the thesis is followed by the practical part, which describes establishing of a franchising relationship with Vodafone CZ. Emphasis is placed again on legal aspects and much space is devoted to the contract on the future franchising agreement. The goal of this work is to introduce people considering to enter the franchising relationship with the positives and pitfalls, and assist them in deciding whether to enter into this relationship or not.

European Business School, Diss., 2007--Oestrich. / Literaturverz.

The subject of this thesis is to build a business plan as a basis for obtaining a franchise license from Fruitisimo. The theoretical part deals with the theoretical basis of franchising and business. The practical part is compiled the business plan, including a description of Fruitisimo, product offering and including financial projections for the next five years.

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The diploma thesis contains a proposal of a franchising system and strategy for the company Jazykový Institut Praha, s.r.o. The proposal is based on theoretical findings stated in specialized literature, analysis of the language services market and its outlook into the future, and also on the historical development of the company, its current situation and intentions of the company owners. The thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part is theoretical, the second analytical and the third contains the actual proposals and recommendations.

This thesis is focused on an interesting and dynamic form of business, called franchising. For the purpose of explanation of this form of business purely Czech company The PUB Franchising s.r.o. has been selected. This company is the owner of the gastronomic franching concept The PUB Pilsner Unique Bar. This thesis not only illuminates the franchising business as such, but analyzes and proposes a strategy to facilitate the future development of the concept The PUB in the Czech Republic but also abroad. The analysis uses tools such as the SWOT analysis and focuses on the analysis of marketing tools used in the company. The aim of this thesis is to propose concrete measures to positively affect franchise business of selected company.

Throughout the last fifty years, scholars have explained franchising primarily through two limited means: agency theory and resource constraints theory. This paper investigates the proportions of company owned stores vs franchisee owned stores. Hypotheses are presented about the proportions of franchisee owned outlets among all industries and then among eight of the largest franchised industries within the US. The findings generally support that most firms use a mixed-method approach when determining their franchising mix but rely mostly on agency theory for most of that mix. The study also finds that the initial investment/asset requirement is the key mechanism to controlling the appropriate franchise proportions. / Business Administration/Interdisciplinary

A internacionalização de empresas é fator fundamental para o desenvolvimento de um país. Embora este seja um processo de pequenas proporções no Brasil, ele está em fase de crescimento. Dentre as empresas que estão se expandindo internacionalmente, estão as franquias. O Brasil é o terceiro maior mercado mundial de franquias, que possui, ainda, a particularidade de ser composto, predominantemente, por empresas nacionais. Este estudo teve por objetivo caracterizar o processo de internacionalização de franquias brasileiras que, por ser um fenômeno recente, é carente de pesquisas. Optou-se pela realização de um estudo quantitativo exploratório que possibilitasse identificar o perfil de franquias nacionais que atuam no exterior, os fatores organizacionais associados à internacionalização, os motivos, destinos e métodos de entrada empregados, bem como as barreiras que dificultam a expansão de outras redes. Foram utilizadas técnicas de estatística descritiva, multivariada e não-paramétrica. Os resultados demonstraram que o total de lojas no Brasil, o tempo de atuação no sistema de franquias e a dispersão geográfica no mercado doméstico são fatores que impactam na atitude da empresa diante da internacionalização. Percebeu-se, ainda, uma postura pró- ativa das empresas que se internacionalizaram, sendo México e Portugal os destinos preferidos e máster-franquia o método mais utilizado pelas organizações. As principais barreiras à internacionalização foram falta de conhecimento sobre o mercado internacional e dificuldades de operação no exterior e de controle sobre a rede, sendo que as empresas não internacionalizadas atribuíram importância muito maior às barreiras do que as já internacionalizadas. Espera-se que as conclusões obtidas possam auxiliar no desenvolvimento das franquias que já atuam no exterior e incentivar a expansão de tantas outras. / The internationalization of companies is very important to the development of a country. Although this is a process of small ratios in Brazil, it is increasing. Amongst the companies which are expanding overseas, there are the franchising ones. Brazil is one of the three biggest world-wide markets of franchising, which has the particularity of being composed, predominantly, by national companies. The objective of this study was to characterize internationalization of brazilian franchisors. As it is a recent phenomenon, it is devoid of researches. It was opted to accomplish an exploratory quantitative study, which allowed to identify the profile of national franchising companies that operate overseas, the organizational characteristics associated to internationalization, the motives, destinations and methods of entrance, as well as the barriers that inhibit the internationalization of others companies. Techniques of descriptive, multivariate and nonparametric statistics were used. The results demonstrated that number of stores, experience with franchising and geographic dispersion in the domestic market are factors that have impact on the attitude towards internationalization. It was also possible to observe a pro-active position of companies that had internationalized, being Mexico and Portugal the preferred destinations and master-franchising the most used method. The main barriers to internationalization were lack of knowledge about the international market and difficulties to operate overseas and to control the franchisees. It is also important to mention that companies that operate only in the domestic market gave much more importance to barriers than internationalized ones. It is expected the conclusions can help the development of franchising companies operating overseas and stimulate the expansion of many others.

O fenômeno do franchising é usualmente abordado pela literatura econômica no sentido de buscar-se explicações para os motivos que levam as organizações à franquear, ou seja, os fatos motivadores do início da franquia. O presente estudo investiga se esta literatura econômica de franquias é suficiente para explicar não somente a origem da rede franqueada, mas também três características de suas operações: o crescimento da rede, a sua qualidade, bem como a satisfação dos franqueados em relação ao papel do franqueador. Para tanto, o trabalho utilizou-se de uma amostra com 107 redes franqueadas e do método estatístico da regressão múltipla. Os dados foram obtidos por meio de duas fontes combinadas, a Associação Brasileira de Franchising (ABF) e de pesquisa da Serasa em parceria com a revista Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negócios. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que a literatura econômica sobre franquias é insuficiente para explicar o crescimento, a qualidade e a satisfação nas redes franqueadas e assim há evidências da necessidade da ampliação da teoria existente a fim de compreender-se de forma mais ampla o fenômeno estudado. / The franchising phenomenon is usually approached by the franchising economic literature in search for the reasons that drive organizations toward the franchising model, the motivation factors to begin the franchising itself. The present study investigates whether this literature is capable of explaining not only the origins of the franchising network, but also three patterns of its operations: growth and quality of the network besides the franchisee satisfaction regarding the franchisor. Therefore it was gather a sample of 107 franchising networks to use the statistic linear regression method. The data were gathered combining two different sources: the Brazilian Franchising Association and the research of Serasa in a partnership with the Brazilian small business magazine Pequenas Empresas & Grandes Negócios. The results suggest that the franchising economic literature is not enough robust to explain the growth, quality and satisfaction of the franchising networks and thus there is evidence of the need for development of the current theory in order to understand deeply the franchising phenomenon.