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Fifty Shades of Franchising: Differentiating commercial, micro, social, and hybrid franchise models

MSA Worldwide

This article intends to provoke discussion around ways in which the social and micro franchising communities of practice can organize and compare information and ideas so that the field of practice can advance more rapidly. Franchising has two main forms.

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Franchising For-Benefits: Emergence of the ‘Fourth Sector’

MSA Worldwide

This new model of social franchising will dramatically accelerate the growth of the fourth sector by facilitating the replication of proven for-benefit businesses. MSA Worldwide is also engaged with leaders of economic development initiatives in American cities to advise on the use of franchising to revitalize low-income communities.

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MSA Worldwide’s response to the FTC’s Request for Information on franchise agreements & franchise business practices

MSA Worldwide

I have served on the International Franchise Associations Board of Directors and on its Executive Committee and in September 2022, I was reelected to the IFA’s board. I am also an Adjunct Professor at the Fisher School of Business at The Ohio State University where I teach a graduate course on Commercial and Social Franchising.