Journal Abbreviation : ' j. Korea Saf. Manag. Sci.' Frequency : Quarterly Doi Prefix : 10.12812/ksms ISSN : 1229-6783 (Print) / 2288-1484 (Online) Year of Launching : 1999 Publisher : Korea Safety Management & Science Indexed/Tracked/Covered By :
An Assessing of Franchisor’s Firm Performance Based on Data Envelopment Analysis
Kim Seonmin*†
*Dept. of Business Administration, Seoultech
†Corresponding Author: Seonmin Kim, Department of Global Business Administration, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, H․P: 010-2735-6497, E-mail: skim@seoultech.ac.kr
October 20, 2014
December 14, 2014
December 23, 2014
Abstract
Due to the severe market conditions, pre-entrepreneur seeks to start their business through franchise company. This paper, using the data envelopment analysis(DEA) method, examines efficiency of a group of franchise company in order to provide efficiency information with pre-entrepreneur. Output-oriented DEA model is applied in the investigation of efficiency, and the overall efficiency score is decomposed into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. The input variables selected to evaluate the efficiency are franchise deposit, franchise contribution cost and the output variables are sales and number of franchises, and length of business. The results of this paper show franchise industry have the low level of overall efficiency and the main sources of inefficiency is found technical rather than scale. As a result, this paper provides not only the current status of efficiency information of a franchise with pre-entrepreneur but also give warning when they sign-up with franchise business.