Franchise Contract Research

Now franchising has become one of the most popular business enterprises to extend and individual to start undertaking. Franchise, as a modern business mode, has already been popular around the world and is developing very rapidly. China is late in the development of franchise. Currently, there is still no individual law on franchise, except for administrative regulations promulgated by the State Council, which is too simple and somewhat impracticable. There still remain some unsolved conflicts among other applicable laws and regulations. During the ten plus years of rapid development of franchise in China, many problems and disputes arose due to the lagging of law-making, as well as the law-related unconsciousness of parties of the franchise, which highlights many problems concerning policy and legal environment and enforcement faced by franchise. Therefore, it is extremely important both theoretically and realistically as to the healthy development of franchise in China to strengthen the research on the theory and the law on franchise, to use the advanced foreign experience for reference, to improve relevant laws and regulations, and to strengthen the legal sense of franchise enterprises.The article is composed of four chapters. The first chapter is an overview of franchise, mainly describing the concept, features and types of franchise. The second chapter analyzes the rights and duties of parties of agreements on franchise. The third chapter analyzes the civil liabilities of parties of agreements on franchise. The forth chapter summarizes the whole article, and puts forward some thoughts and suggestions for improving laws and regulations on franchise of China.