Strategic Interactions in Franchising Systems When Anticipating Innovation: How to Develop Operational Strategies and Cooperative Alliance Models?
Zhuang Wu,
Fangfang Guo
Abstract:Correctly responding to the arrival of unexpected innovative events can help franchise system members rationalize their operational strategies and cooperative alliance models to improve performance, while the exact timing of successful product innovation is often unknown. Based on this, we consider the impact of innovation success on the franchising system, find the optimal strategies and system profits under three modes of horizontal cooperative alliance, non-cooperative and vertical cooperative alliance in t… Show more
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