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Interfirm Networks

Franchising, Cooperatives and Strategic Alliances

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Editors:
  1. Josef Windsperger

    1. Department of Management, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Gérard Cliquet

    1. Centre Recherche en Economic et Management (CREM), Universite de Rennes 1, Rennes Cédex 7, France

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  3. Thomas Ehrmann

    1. Institut für Strategisches Management, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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  4. Georg Hendrikse

    1. Department of Organization, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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  • Helps to understand and successfully design interorganizational relationships
  • Special chapters on franchising and cooperatives explain contract design, control and incentive issues
  • Includes new results on theoretical views on interfirm networks and their application in different industries
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Interfirm Networks: An Introduction

    • Josef Windsperger, Gérard Cliquet, Thomas Ehrmann, George Hendrikse
    Pages 1-6

  3. Erratum

    • Josef Windsperger, Gérard Cliquet, Thomas Ehrmann, George Hendrikse
    Pages E1-E1

  4. Franchising Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Dynamics of Contractual Design: Determinants of Contract Duration in Franchising Networks

      • Odile Chanut, Magali Chaudey, Muriel Fadairo, Frédéric Perdreau
      Pages 9-33

    3. Using Organizational Capability and Transaction Cost Theory to Explain Multi-unit Franchising

      • Dildar Hussain, Josef Windsperger
      Pages 35-55

    4. Multi-unit Franchise System Performance: An Organizational Economics Analysis

      • Cintya Lanchimba, Josef Windsperger
      Pages 57-76

    5. Effects of Evolutionary Rules on Cooperative Tendencies in Franchising Networks

      • Thomas Ehrmann, Brinja Meiseberg, Michael Kopel
      Pages 77-97

    6. A Cross-National Comparison of the Role of Habit in Linkages Between Customer Satisfaction and Firm Reputation and Their Effects on Firm-Level Outcomes in Franchising

      • Brinja Meiseberg, Rajiv P. Dant
      Pages 99-124

    7. Social Capital and Start-Up Performance: The Role of Customer Capital

      • Brinja Meiseberg
      Pages 125-148

    8. The Impact of European Legislation on Franchising: A Focus on Know-How, E-Commerce and Resale Prices

      • Rozenn Perrigot, Guy Basset
      Pages 149-170

  5. Cooperatives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Motivation Behind Members’ Loyalty to Agricultural Cooperatives

      • Chrysa Morfi, Petri Ollila, Jerker Nilsson, Li Feng, Konstantinos Karantininis
      Pages 173-190

    3. An Empirical Analysis of Product Quality and Organizational Form

      • Guenter Schamel, Francisco Javier Santos-Arteaga
      Pages 191-207

    4. Informing Measurement of Cooperative Performance

      • Jason R. V. Franken, Michael L. Cook
      Pages 209-226
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“Contributors, editors and authors, of this book have to be congratulated since they produced a very good text on the organization of interfirm networks … . It is a very complete work, very well written and providing a very agreeable reading, simultaneously rigorous and pedagogic, indispensable for academics and practitioners in the fields of economics, marketing and strategic management, accessible and interesting to broad crowds of readers.” (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, International Journal of Latest Trends in Finance & Economic Sciences, Vol. 6 (2), June, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Josef Windsperger

  • Centre Recherche en Economic et Management (CREM), Universite de Rennes 1, Rennes Cédex 7, France

    Gérard Cliquet

  • Institut für Strategisches Management, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Thomas Ehrmann

  • Department of Organization, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Georg Hendrikse

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interfirm Networks

  • Book Subtitle: Franchising, Cooperatives and Strategic Alliances

  • Editors: Josef Windsperger, Gérard Cliquet, Thomas Ehrmann, Georg Hendrikse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10184-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10183-5Published: 18 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35850-5Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10184-2Published: 01 December 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 320

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Organization, Operations Management, Industrial Organization, Sales/Distribution, Emerging Markets/Globalization

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