Organizational design and control across multiple markets: The case of franchising in the convenience store industry

Accounting Review

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1749-1779

  Campbell, Dennis ^a   Datar, Srikant M ^a   Sandino, Tatiana ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Decentralization; Franchising; Incentives; Market dispersion; Organizational design; Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349109792     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2009.84.6.1749     Document Type: Article

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