There was an article recently published that spoke of how social enterprise can learn from the McDonalds business model. It was, of course, referring to microfranchising, although it never mentioned the term specifically.
One of the important points of the article was the finding that the franchise model is excellent for expansion purposes because of [...]
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Microfranchising’s Greatest Asset
Leveraging the Power of Markets with Microfranchising
There has been growing interest lately in the use of market-based solutions to help alleviate poverty across the globe, especially as a result of the successes of the Acumen Fund. Although these kinds of solutions are no panacea, they have opened many opportunities for poverty relief and economic self reliance development that previous approaches (such [...]
Microfanchising and Economic Self-Reliance
Where does microfranchising fit in with other methods of poverty alleviation? Stephen W. Gibson, creator of the Academy for Creating Enterprise, has developed the ‘Spectrum of Economic Self-Reliance Development,’ which categorizes and identifies different means of poverty alleviation. This spectrum helps us answer the above question about microfranchising, and it is from this spectrum [...]
