Abstract The main purpose of this article is to explore the policy influence of cable TV franchise combination. In order to break the local monopoly of Taiwan¡¦s cable TV as well as considering the advance technological convergence proposed, Government Information Office (GIO) proposed the adjustment of the existing 47 franchise districts to a single franchise area in three phases in its Jan. 2003 report. The re-arrangement of the franchise region will cause a revolution in the industry. How will it influence those system operators? Is it possible to develop into another cable TV war by cutting prices to gain benefits of audiences? Do system operators have any action plans for the change? Can this policy benefit the industry¡¦s development? This article will provide detailed discussions on these major issues. There are two ways to go about the research. The first is by the means of questionnaire; distribution of questionnaires to 62-system owners in Taiwan results in 54 effective samples gathered. The second is by means of in-depth interview; conducting interviews with industrial, legislative, and academic experts. After statistical analysis and content analysis, the research findings from these interviews are as follow: 1. The re-arrangement of cable TV franchise regions might cause significant competition between system operators. In the long run, it is unlikely that the cable TV industries will apply vicious competition tactics as previously done. It is believed that strategic alliance, stock exchange, and multiple service strategies will be implemented instead. 2. Under the influence of re-arranging franchise region policy and increasing new entry competitions, most system operators will focus on strengthening their network upgrade, customer service, and professional employee training. They are also likely to develop new business opportunities and to engage in cost-saving activities. 3. Most system operators support the policy with positive anticipation. The regulatory authority expects tremendous benefits for both audiences and cable industry. The scholars project an improvement in operators¡¦ customer service quality. In summary, the policy is expected to have a positive influence on cable industry¡¦s overall development. Since the policy has a major impact on the industry¡¦s future, it is essential to meet all development needs of the cable industry. As research suggests that the authorities should communicate with all related parties before rolling out the franchise regional adjustment policy.

Taiwans whale watching industry has been prosper rapidly since 1997 while not any law administering it .Due to free market structure the resource of whale watching would be excessly exploited and the whale watching industry will not exist any more. There are three research topics on the institutional design of the industry in my article. Namely , the administering department and its related rules for whale watching industry to be established, the cost analysis for governance structure of institution, and the study of franchise for Taiwan¡¦s current whale watching industry. According to Williamson¡]1991¡^,I present three kinds of organization style¡]i.e. market ,hierarchy organization and their mixed form¡^ and their key differences to figure out the most efficient one. And finally I come to a conclusion that the franchise is the most efficient of the three kinds of organizational style and can be a reference structure for making law on Taiwan¡¦s whale watching industry.

Research on holding bank¡¦s risk-taking behavior have focused on the effect on the performace. Using data in Taiwan, this paper investigates the relationship between managerial ownership, franchise value and domestic bank¡¦s risk-taking behavior. ¡@This paper includes independent variances of total return risk, systematic risk and idoiosyncratic risk derived from the capital market, and includes dependent variances of managerial ownership, franchise value, financial leveal, operating leveal and total assets. ¡@This research indicates that: ¡@1.manager ownership is negatively related to both total return risk, systematic risk and idoiosyncratic risk. ¡@2.franchise value is negatively related to both total return risk and idoiosyncratic risk, and unlated to systematic risk. ¡@3.financial leveal is unrelated to both total return risk ,systematic risk and idoiosyncratic risk. ¡@4.operating leveal is positively related to both total return risk and idoiosyncratic risk, and unlated to systematic risk. ¡@5.total assets is unrelated to both total return risk, systematic risk and idoiosyncratic risk.

The primary research focuses on the differences of training in diverse real estate chain system. It takes case study and analyzes data of training courses from three famous real estate agency in Taiwan; using half-structural formula questionnaire for interview. According to five aspects, external environment, regular chain headquarters, franchise chain headquarters, franchisee and brokers; it points seven main factors which influence the training from different system. The similarities and dissimilarities are as below: 1.Regular chain focuses training on human resource investment, but franchise chain takes it as a supply for franchisee of practical training source. 2.The budget of training of regular chain comes from the headquarters, whereas the franchise chain comes from monthly expense. 3.The training courses of regular chain are constant and compulsory; also bounding with promotion. The courses of franchise chain are free, optional and with no promotion. 4.Both of them use their own interior sources to training. 5.The recruitment requirements between regular and franchise chain are different. Regular chain has average quality of a broker, but the diversity of franchise chain is various. 6.Regular and franchise chain provide training sessions for new employees regularly. 7.The courses held in headquarters cannot completely satisfy franchise chain stores¡¦ need.

<p>Problem</p><p>Dual Nation is a local restaurant and pub located in the centre of Helsingborg. The seven year old business has grown fast and established itself as a successful restaurant in the city. After a initial growth period, the restaurant has now reached a point where a change in its structure, strategy or system must be performed in order to witness renewed growth. A popular business system for expanding restaurants is the concept of franchise. Is the restau-rant suitable for such an expansion?</p><p>Purpose</p><p>The main purpose of the thesis is to investigate if Dual Nation is conformable for franchise expansion and how Dual Nation must be developed in order to be able to go franchise. The thesis will also provide suggestions of improvements to the owner Karin Svensson.</p><p>Method</p><p>A qualitative method has been used in this thesis. Empirical findings have been gathered from interviews with the owner and employees of Dual Nation. These findings has thereafter been analyzed with known franchise theory.</p><p>Result</p><p>The main conclusion of this thesis is that Dual Nation shall start to take actions towards a franchise development. The company will during the process find out whether they are suitable for franchising or not. None of the initial actions will be unnecessary since they are not franchise unique and therefore they will contribute to the overall efficiency of the restaurant. Examples of such actions is to nursing the brand, to try to delegate responsibility and work among the employees so the well being of the business is not dependent on a single individual, to create an environment where efforts of the employees are acknowledged and rewarded and to simplify the concept to make it transferable to other cities.</p>

Problem Dual Nation is a local restaurant and pub located in the centre of Helsingborg. The seven year old business has grown fast and established itself as a successful restaurant in the city. After a initial growth period, the restaurant has now reached a point where a change in its structure, strategy or system must be performed in order to witness renewed growth. A popular business system for expanding restaurants is the concept of franchise. Is the restau-rant suitable for such an expansion? Purpose The main purpose of the thesis is to investigate if Dual Nation is conformable for franchise expansion and how Dual Nation must be developed in order to be able to go franchise. The thesis will also provide suggestions of improvements to the owner Karin Svensson. Method A qualitative method has been used in this thesis. Empirical findings have been gathered from interviews with the owner and employees of Dual Nation. These findings has thereafter been analyzed with known franchise theory. Result The main conclusion of this thesis is that Dual Nation shall start to take actions towards a franchise development. The company will during the process find out whether they are suitable for franchising or not. None of the initial actions will be unnecessary since they are not franchise unique and therefore they will contribute to the overall efficiency of the restaurant. Examples of such actions is to nursing the brand, to try to delegate responsibility and work among the employees so the well being of the business is not dependent on a single individual, to create an environment where efforts of the employees are acknowledged and rewarded and to simplify the concept to make it transferable to other cities.

Titel: Ett varumärke inom ett varumärke Nivå: C-uppsats i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Jenny Jansson och Linnea Mohlén Handledare: Jonas Kågström Datum: 2014 – Maj   Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att analysera vilka utmaningar en fastighetsmäklare ställs inför i skapandet av ett personligt varumärke, inom en franchiseorganisation.   Metod: I denna studie har data genererats genom att en webb-baserad enkätundersökning skickats ut via e-mail. Enkäten skickades ut till 1 700 verksamma fastighetsmäklare inom fyra olika franchiseorganisationer. Det insamlade materialet analyserades sedan i statistikprogrammet SPSS, de analyser som genomfördes var korrelationsanalys, faktoranalys och klusteranalys.   Resultat &amp; slutsats: Denna studie har funnit att det finns två grupperingar inom den berörda urvalsgruppen. Den ena gruppen föredrar att marknadsföra det personliga varumärket och den andra gruppen föredrar att marknadsföra företaget de representerar. Studien har även uppmärksammat att förtroende från arbetsgivaren har främst inverkan på hur väl den enskilde fastighetsmäklaren kan arbeta med sitt personliga varumärke samt att ett personligt varumärke växer starkare med tiden.   Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Denna studie undersökte fenomenet på ett översiktligt sätt för att skapa en grund i detta forskningsområde. Förslagsvis bör resultatet från denna studie undersökas med en kvalitativ metod för att gå in djupare på fenomenets inverkan i franchiseorganisationer.   Uppsatsens bidrag: Denna studie ger ett bidrag genom att framställa en vägledning för hur franchiseorganisationerna och den enskilde fastighetsmäklaren ska ta till sig fenomenet personligt varumärke. Studien syftar till att analysera vilka utmaningar fastighetsmäklaren ställs inför i arbetet med det personliga varumärket och i samband med detta identifiera hur de aktiva fastighetsmäklarnas inställning gentemot ämnet ser ut.   Nyckelord: Franchise, företagsidentitet, personligt varumärke, personlig marknadsföring, förtroende.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has recently come under scrutiny from media and fans due to the perception that some franchises are losing games on purpose in an attempt to win a higher draft pick. While researchers have concluded tanking does exist in the NBA, this is the first paper to analyze the strategy’s success in terms of generating increases in future winning percentage or future franchise value. This paper, through panel data regressions controlling for fixed effects for 21 seasons, has found that tanking does have a large impact on future winning percentage. A team that tanks typically sees a significant increase in wins of approximately 9.87 games between the 2nd and 4th year after the team tanked. These results have large implications for the league as the NBA recently began draft reform discussions to reduce the incentive to tank. This paper validates the leagues’ belief that draft reform must occur as tanking can give an unfair advantage in future years.

Franchising has been widely accepted as an effective way to conduct and expand businesses. However, a franchise system is not a guarantee of success in the market. A successful franchise system should rely on a close and strong franchising relationship. Franchising is an important relationship management business. Franchising arrangements normally last for a number of years, so the franchisor and franchisee in the arrangement relationship are usually motivated to cooperate with each other. In addition, highly loyal franchisees may be obtained through a successful long-term franchising relationship. Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous wave of interest in franchising relationships. However, little research has been conducted to determine the reasons for long-term franchising relationships. As a result, this study focuses on the important elements that might lead to a successful long-term franchising relationship. This study attempts to examine empirically three essential constructs (relationship quality, cooperation and customer loyalty), which might lead to successful long-term franchising relationships between franchisees and franchisors among the convenience stores in Taiwan. Mailed questionnaires were utilised to collect the research data. A total of 500 surveys were mailed randomly to the manager/supervisor of convenience stores’ franchisees among the four main franchisors (7-ELEVEN, Family, Hi-Life and OK) in Taiwan. The final sample size is 120, yielding a response rate of 24 per cent. The results show that relationship quality positively influences the cooperative relationships between franchisors and franchisees. Relationship quality is also positively correlated with franchisees’ loyalty. Additionally, the results indicate that the cooperative relationships between franchisors and franchisees are significantly associated with franchisees’ loyalty.

No Abstract / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / hb2014 / Mercantile Law / unrestricted