Business Networking Franchise

business networking
(business network) A group of people who have some kind of commercial relationship; for example, sellers and buyers, buyers among themselves, buyers and suppliers, and colleagues and other colleagues.
Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity.
(Business network) Actors are autonomous and linked to each other through relationships, which are flexible and may change accordingly to rapid changes in the environment. The 'glue' that keeps the relationships together are based on technical, economic, legal and especially personal ties.

franchise
An authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, e.g., providing a broadcasting service or acting as an agent for a company's products
an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
grant a franchise to
a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
A business or service given such authorization to operate
An authorization given by a league to own a sports team