Relationship quality between a franchisor and its franchisees is the most important element of any successful business. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors that increase franchisee's relationship commitment toward their franchisor. We hypothesized that relationship commitment is effected by the amount of initial investment, length of business, supporting services from franchisor, and two-way communication while those relationships are mediated by trust toward franchisor (either trust on competency or trust on integrity). An empirical study was conducted by interviewing 300 franchisees in Korea and a total of 257 responses were used for our final analysis. The result of structural equation model analysis showed that the proposed predictors, except for length of business, significantly increased relationship commitment through trust toward franchisor. Relationship commitment had a positive relationship with relationship satisfaction. The explanatory power of our research model was pretty high explaining 60% variances of relationship commitment and 73% variances of relationship satisfaction.
한국창업학회는 기업가정신, 사회적기업가정신, 조직기업가정신, 국제․지역창업, 기술창업, 문화창업, 비영리창업, 여성창업, 소상공․자영업창업, 중소벤처창업, 창업경영, 창업교육, 창업지원정책, 창업컨설팅, 가족기업, 사회적기업, 벤처캐피탈 등 창업학 및 이와 관련되는 학문의 연구와 적용을 통하여 한국창업학의 발전과 창업정책개발, 국가경제 및 기업의 성장 발전에 기여하며, 회원 상호간의 학술교류와 친목 도모를 목적으로 한다.
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한국창업학회지 [Journal of the Korean Entrepreneurship Socieity]