Choice International, a business-format franchisor of hotels, launched Cambria Suites to serve an upscale market segment. Choice
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Choice International, a business-format franchisor of hotels, launched Cambria Suites to serve an upscale market segment. Choice International is concerned that franchisees maintain a consistent standard. It has contracted with a quality assurance specialist, LRA Worldwide, to conduct anonymous inspections of each Cambria Suites hotel twice yearly.
- Using a relevant graph with ‘effort’ on the horizontal axis, illustrate a franchisee’s marginal benefit and marginal cost of effort and explain its choice of effort.
- How does the franchisee’s effort benefit other franchisees? Explain in terms of an externality. On your graph for (a), identify the economically efficient effort.
- Why would one Cambria Suites franchisee want Choice International to inspect other franchisees?
- Consider the deviation between the franchisee’s choice of effort and the economically efficient effort. Would this be smaller or larger in a chain of hotels that are all in a single city than in an international chain?
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