To gain a better understanding of the moderating impact
of franchise ownership structure, we conducted tests of the
simple slopes at low (-1 SD), high (-1-I SD), and mean values
of PROPFE (Cohen et al. 2003). Figure 2, Panel A (B),
represents the simple slope of the number of registration
(relationship) law states on litigation incidence for low and
high reliance on franchisee-owned outlets. The inverse
association between REGISNUM and INCID (simple slope
of REGIS = -.04) is reversed for franchisors with high levels
of PROPFE (simple slope of REGIS = .12; see Figure 2,
Panel A). For RELNUM, the effect of PROPFE is just as