The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) is pleased to offer this Guide to International Master Franchise Arrangements to the international legal and business communities. By doing so, it aims to make a contribution to an understanding of this important business method, which, firmly established in a number of market economies, is spreading into and assuming an ever greater role also in an increasing number of countries with mixed or State economies.

International franchising is in fact playing an ever greater role in introducing commercial know-how into countries with developing economies or with economies in transition. Such micro-economic reform complements the large scale international economic and financial changes being brought about by the rapid spread of globalised commercial and industrial development. International franchising is playing a vital role in ensuring the productive transfer of technology and enhanced levels of foreign investment that are so important to developing and emerging economies.

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