Managing asymmetry in franchise contracts: Transparency as the overriding rule

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1488-1499

  Lapiedra, Rosa ^a   Palau, Felipe ^a   Reig, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contract law; Franchisee protection; Franchising; International franchise contracts; International management contracts; Obligatory pre contractual information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865359635     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211262042     Document Type: Article

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