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The convenience store business have entered the era of fierce competition, therefore how to attract new franchisees and at the same time retain good relationship with franchisees that are already in operation have been the main task for the franchisers. Furthermore, how to set franchise rules and improve franchising procedure in order to attract more franchisees to enter the franchise have been the main goal for many convenience store franchise system’s main task.. Currently, many franchise systems use different franchise rules and management methods. Therefore, the goal of this thesis is to understand the operation of Taiwanese franchise operation, management methods and future goals. Hopefully, this thesis can bring some contribution to future franchise-related studies, also at the same time, figure out the potential franchising potential consideration factors in order to attract more investors to join franchise. This thesis focuses on the factors that franchisees consider when choosing franchise system to join. Hopefully through interviews made to current franchisees (convenience store managers), this thesis can clarify the franchise consideration factors and assist franchisers to attract more investors to join. Through the interviews and surveys, the three franchise systems have the following common characteristics: 1. As long as the franchise is well-known, the competitiveness of the products will not affect customers’ choices of place to spend but it will affect the amount that customers spend. 2. The past operation focuses is consider important factor because before the franchisees join the franchise system, they were customers too and they have established assumptions toward the system, therefore, it has certain degree of affection. 3. The success rate has surpass other competitors have considered important factors because open a franchise convenience store require over one million new Taiwanese dollars of investment, therefore, choosing a well-known franchise system is considered important to franchisers. 4. Because the three franchise systems that is included in the research have the history of at least 10 years, therefore, it possess strong position in the franchise system. Therefore, good communication channels have been consider the most crucial consideration factors when choosing a franchise system to join. In conclusion, this thesis provide franchisers the following recommendations to improve the relationship with franchisees: the establishment of franchiser-franchisee management department, to provide the franchise rules with flexibility and to simplify the franchise contracts to attract more people to join.
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