Toward an international code of franchising

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1568-1595

  Gámez González, Juan ^a   Rondan Cataluña, F Javier ^a   Castro, Enrique C Diez de ^a   Navarro Garcia, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Ethics; Franchising

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649273478     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011090333     Document Type: Article

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