ABSTRACT A Study on Factors Influencing Franchisee Satisfaction and their Relationship with Organizational Consequences in the Food Service Industry Han, Kyu Chul Department o...

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ABSTRACT A Study on Factors Influencing Franchisee Satisfaction and their Relationship with Organizational Consequences in the Food Service Industry Han, Kyu Chul Department o...
ABSTRACT
A Study on Factors Influencing Franchisee Satisfaction
and their Relationship with Organizational
Consequences in the Food Service Industry
Han, Kyu Chul
Department of Business Administration
Graduate School of Sejong University
The Local franchise industry has expanded during the last quarter century in terms of numbers of franchisors and franchisees together with market volume and size. Considering these situations, the relationship between franchisor and franchisee and the competitive advantage of both entities are nowadays considered to be more important than ever before. Especially relationship satisfaction, or the franchisee satisfaction is fundamental construct in franchise distribution channel.
The purpose of this study is to investigate factors influencing franchisee satisfaction which the author categorizes into three representing strategic contingency factors such as firm-environment factors, marketing mix factors, and relationship factors, and also to elaborate the relative importance and influence effect between 3-way factors and sub-variables within each factor respectively. The relationship among organizational consequences(a kind of relationship quality construct) including trust, commitment, and recontract intention is also investigated in line with the purpose of this study.
The research model conceptualizing antecedents of franchisee satisfaction and its organizational consequences is proposed. The hypotheses are as follows: firm-environment factors(industry context, rivalry, channel configurations, and institutional environment) positively affect franchisee satisfaction(H1). Marketing mix factors(product, price, distribution, promotion, people, process, and physical evidence) positively affect franchisee satisfaction(H2). Relationship factors(flexibility, communication, and leadership) positively affect franchisee satisfaction(H3). Franchisee satisfaction positively affects trust(H4). Franchisee satisfaction positively affects recontract intention(H5). Franchisee satisfaction positively affects commitment(H6). Trust positively affects commitment(H7). Trust positively affects recontract intention(H8). Commitment positively affects recontract intention(H9).
The results of the empirical study are as follows: All strategic contingency factors positively affect franchisee satisfaction and H6 and H8 are not supported in terms of relationship among organizational consequences. The analysis of relative importance and influence effect is as follows: Marketing mix factor is the most important and influential among three strategic contingency factors, followed by relationship factor and firm-environment factor. In terms of relative importance among sub-factors within each strategic contingency factor, distribution within marketing mix factor, communication within relationship factor, and rivalry within firm-environment factor are the most important and influential respectively.
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