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IKEA is private. Do you not think it would behave quite differently were it a typical public company?
by rossng 4y ago
IKEA is private. Do you not think it would behave quite differently were it a typical public company?
- makeitdouble 4y agoThanks, I forgot they were private. To my defense, their corporate structure is a mess (on purpose) and the franchise shops could probably be public while the controlling entities and holdings stay private. The structure is so deliberately conceived that I wouldn’t be surprised if it kept the same functioning even as a public entity. They’d make less money, but would probably still concentrate decision power into a few chosen hands and lock the whole from external influence.