International Franchise Association

restaurant that services million of people around the globe daily. McDonalds are franchises. A franchise is the “license to sell another product or use of another’s name in business or both”((Ferrell, Hint, & Ferrell, 2009). McDonalds in the small business category as each store is owned by the franchise. Starting a small business can be risky, as most small businesses the individual is an entrepreneur. Being part of a franchise such as McDonalds, the entrepreneur can lose their desire to…

Business Format Franchise is considered the most successful business model as it “provides the franchisee with an entire system of doing business” (p.83). The success for this model comes from the idea of Franchise Prototype where the Franchise…

This is how I plan on supplementing the franchise for the first several years, or as long as needed. I love owning and managing my own company and I like the idea of owning a franchise for my next, and hopefully last, career change. As anyone who has owned a business knows there are aspects of running a company that can only be learned through trial and error and…

time. Another option for Natural Beautique is to use a franchise agreement, which is very similar to a license agreement. A franchise agreement is a business agreement in which a franchisor allows another person or company to operate an enterprise using its trademark, logo, product line, and methods of operation in return for a fee. (Fred Luthans, 2015) This is most likely not the option Natural Beautique would want to use; as franchises are usually for the fast food and hotel industries.…

On a late Thursday afternoon, I thought it would be have been a nice day to go library and get some books. Being a geeky teenage girl, I love to read anything from a mystery to a good thriller. My day started off great! A big bowl of Frosted Flakes, a bright early morning and a little bit of television. Nothing could go wrong… or could it? “Oh crap, where’s my library card”.I yelled in frustration. I began to search through all my pockets and in between my father’s car seats.After fifteen…

High school had been his private hell and now with the drama at home, life in general had become intolerable. The one thing he was thankful for was football. Being on defense, he was blessed with the ability to hit people on a regular basis. There was only one thing he disliked about football, although defense is critical in winning games, the defense was not as appreciated as the quarterback that could do no wrong. Trevor Lawrence, the bane of Alexander's existence, haunted him throughout…

Jan Servaes (City University of Hong Kong) and Jim Anderson (University of Utah) have circulated a CFP seeking to address an apparent crisis in communication research. Aiming to publish in The International Communication GAZETTE, the crisis is rhetorically predicated upon questions such as “What has the communication discipline contributed to the social sciences? What has been its impact on policy and social change?” Citing, amongst other, the apparent lack of distinctive disciplinary problems,…

Fingerprints have been widely used throughout the world as means of identification for forensic purposes. Forensic experts have extensively relied on premises that fingerprint characteristics are highly discriminatory and immutable amongst the general population (Haber and Haber, 2008). Fingerprint formation is induced by the stresses and strains experienced by the fetus in utero, which are random and infinite, it is likely that they subsequently produce a random, infinite variety of friction…

With these critiques in mind, Merolla’s phenomenon of interpersonal forgiveness and sincerity could be studied under a different metaphor and a different set of metatheoretical assumptions. This would shift the goal of the research and the kinds of questions that get asked, but could reveal the impact of how the conceptualization and theories behind a study shape the entire research process. If the application of metaphor were to shift from coordination to control, Merolla’s study would change…

Vintage Camel cigarette advertisements appealed to middle class women and men by luring them in with the idea that smoking was healthy, and resulted in an elevated social status. While implying tobacco soaked in poisonous chemicals was healthy and attractive was irresponsible, to say the least, the big tobacco companies got away with it for several years. So how did Camel convince consumers to overlook the hidden dangers of smoking? Creating a campaign based on appeal, logic, and surveys,…