Plural franchise organizations [Elektronische Ressource] / Georg Spranger

PLURAL FRANCHISE ORGANIZATIONS Georg Spranger Institute of Strategic Management | University of Muenster | Germany II PLURAL FRANCHISE ORGANIZATIONS A thesis presented to the Department of Economics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doktor Rerum Politicarum in the subject of Economics, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Wirtschaftswissenschaften durch die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster Georg Spranger Muenster, Germany September 2005 To entrepreneurs in franchising © 2005-2006 by Georg Spranger All rights reserved. JEL: J33, L22, L25 D6 Thesis Committee Dean: Prof. Dr. Theresia Theurl Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Ehrmann Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schewe Date of Disputation: November 24, 2005 For correspondence contact the author: Georg Spranger | Institute of Strategic Management | University of Muenster | Leonardo Campus 18 | D-48149 Muenster | Germany Tel.: + 49 170 4718 500 | Fax: +49 251 833 833 3 E-Mail: spranger@ism.uni-muenster.de II Table of Contents Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................