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Institutional Environments and the internationalization of franchise chains: the contrasting cases of North African countries

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  • Odile CHANUT
  • Nadjoua GHARBI
  • Dominique BONET FERNANDEZ

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Franchising has become a dominant model of retailing in the Western world and is also developing in emerging countries, with the internationalization of franchisors. The paper is an attempt at explaining the significant differences in the development of

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  • Odile CHANUT & Nadjoua GHARBI & Dominique BONET FERNANDEZ, 2014. "Institutional Environments and the internationalization of franchise chains: the contrasting cases of North African countries," Working Papers 2014-200, Department of Research, Ipag Business School.
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