Why Do Firms Use Franchising as an Entrepreneurial Strategy?: A Meta-Analysis

By James G. Combs, Dave J. Ketchen. 2003

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Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth Rate (2010, background): “A second major benefit of franchising is that it helps firms grow without any major resource outlays (Combs & Ketchen, 2003).”
Reconsidering the Reputation—Performance Relationship: A Resource-Based View (2010, background): “Such efforts have provided important conclusions to the literature, including that transaction costs do drive decisions about organizational form (Geyskens, Steenkamp, & Kumar, 2006), whereas capital levels do not (Combs & Ketchen, 2003).”
The Role of Resource Flexibility in Leveraging Strategic Resources (2010, unknown): “Age and size have been used frequently in prior franchising research to depict resources (Combs and Ketchen, 2003).”
Agency and institutional influences on franchising decisions (2011, background): “In a recent literature review and meta-analysis of forty-four franchising studies, Combs and Ketchen (2003) found strong support for hypotheses grounded in agency theory.”
Resource Scarcity and Agency Theory Predictions Concerning the Continued Use of Franchising in Multi‐outlet Networks (2006, background): “A recent meta-analysis found that geographic dispersion showed the strongest relationship with franchising 30 JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT among the 10 variables commonly examined in extant research (Combs and Ketchen 2003).”
Clearing a Path Through the Forest: A Meta-Review of Interorganizational Relationships (2011, background): “Franchising typically occurs in industries emphasizing a type of service that needs to be performed near customers, requiring a combination of centralized and decentralized resources (Combs & Ketchen, 2003; Combs et al., 2004).”
A Multilevel Examination of the Drivers of Firm Multinationality (2012, unknown): “Meta-analysis has won widespread recognition in management research over the past few decades as an indispensible research tool for integrating and expanding our knowledge base on specific research topics (Eden 2002; see, e.g., Combs & Ketchen, 2003; Geyskens, Steenkamp, & Kumar, 2006).”
An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test (2012, methodology): “First, rxy.z can be computed directly from regression output, which enables the inclusion of studies from macro research fields such as finance and economics, in which effect-size reporting is not editorially demanded of authors (Combs & Ketchen, 2003).”
A Review and Evaluation of Meta-Analysis Practices in Management Research (2009, methodology): “Metaanalysis has, for example, been used to establish empirical generalizations in the contexts of franchising (Combs & Ketchen, 2003), employee turnover (Griffeth, Hom, & Gaertner, 2000), first-mover advantages (VanderWerf & Mahon, 1997), the concentration–performance relationship (Datta &…”