Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7425837 | Journal of Business Venturing Insights | 2018 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Many franchisors seek to enlist military veterans as franchisees because veterans' military training and experience help them act entrepreneurially without straying outside a franchise's business model. We examine whether efforts to recruit veterans alter the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) rhetoric in franchisee recruitment material and number of franchises. Using a sample of Franchise 500 firms, we find that veteran recruitment has significant interactions with overall EO, innovativeness and risk-taking. Overall, our results suggest that recruiting veterans as franchisees offers important benefits to franchisors.
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Authors
Jeremy C. Short, Miles A. Zachary, David J. Jr.,