RIFC: Advancing the Understanding of Franchising

The Rosenberg International Franchise Center (RIFC) explores and advances the understanding of franchising through academic research, education, and outreach. Franchising represents over $674 billion of the business conducted in the United States of America annually.

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Franchising World Magazine: Going Global? Choose Wisely

Read RIFC Director Dr. Hachemi Aliouche's franchise research-based article "Going Global? Choose Wisely" in the

August 2018 issue of Franchising World Magazine here.  

RIFC Director Presents Franchise Research in Ecuador 

RIFC Director Dr. Aliouche presents franchise research at ISOF Conference in Quito, Ecuador

The Franchise Model: How to Accelerate Circular Economy Implementation in the Recycling Sector

A circular economy (CE) utilizes goods at the end of their typical life cycle to repeatedly create or re-create products, infinitely. Emerging economic models such as CE disrupt the patterns of organization of value chains, and create new business opportunities for collecting and recycling businesses, the development of second life products markets, and the creation of independent structures that outsource and optimize the physical flow management. CE initiatives may come from NGOs or social entrepreneurs worldwide. In their exploratory research The Franchise Model: How to Accelerate Circular Economy Implementation in the Recycling Sector, Dr. Aliouche and fellow researcher, Dominique Bonet Fernandez from IPAG-Business School in Aix-Marseille Université in Paris, France, demonstrate how the franchise model may be an effective accelerator of change to help to quickly and efficiently implement sustainable CE initiatives.

Download the presentation deck (PowerPoint) from the June 2018 Annual Conference of the International Society of Franchising (ISoF) held in Quito, Ecuador:

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