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This study examines the factors on the decision whether to seek overseas expansion by US-based fast food franchise systems.It develops a theoretical framework mainly based on the agency theory to identify the firm-specific factors and to estimate their contributions.In the literature,logistic regression has been most commonly used methodology in similar studies with a dichotomous response.However,it restricts the contribution of each factor to be a linear term with a fixed coefficient.