Sharing ownership with outside investors through an IPO has advantages and disadvantages that create dilemmas for company founders. It can further be a source of disappointment when expectations fall short of reality. That's not the case for the Greek ship owners who floated the shares of their...

Provides both theory and strategy for operating in a semiglobal economy in which international businesses need to compete in highly globalized and highly localized markets at the same time. This book raises important challenges to the conventional models of business organization and the...