{"id":7106,"date":"2012-12-11T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2012-12-11T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T15:00:40","slug":"afghan-radioshack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/afghan-radioshack\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan RadioShack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/121012_0047_AfghanRadio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest initiative to modernize Afghanistan&#8217;s economy depends on RadioShack writes Nick Leiber:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beyond fast food shops in American bases, there aren&#8217;t many western franchises in Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li>Yet there is a great demand for them from young Afghans who have grown up with the internet and access to global cultural norms.<\/li>\n<li>RadioShack, which intends to sell seven franchises in 2013, is joining up with other companies such as Hertz and AlphaGraphics to tap the Afghan market.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The United States supports these efforts as the franchise system is an effective way to transfer expertise and knowledge to help the country develop.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>An Afghan RadioShack buyer would, for example, be sent for two weeks of training in the United States to learn about the company&#8217;s culture and corporate practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the benefits that this may have for Afghanistan as well as the challenges that lie ahead over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-12-07\/extreme-franchising-bringing-radioshack-to-afghanistan\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-12-07\/extreme-franchising-bringing-radioshack-to-afghanistan\">Business Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest initiative to modernize Afghanistan&#8217;s economy depends on RadioShack writes Nick Leiber: Beyond fast food shops in American bases, there aren&#8217;t many western franchises in Afghanistan. Yet there is a great demand for them from young Afghans who have grown up with the internet and access to global cultural norms. RadioShack, which intends to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/121012_0047_AfghanRadio1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}