The Richard Ivey School of Business, the University of Western Ontario maintains the second largest collection of business cases in the world, named Ivey Publishing, which contains over 2,500 active cases in nine major disciplines, over 80% of which have teaching notes. In cooperation with Franchise Center of the Center for Entrepreneurship Osijek, Professor Ilan Alon, PhD from Rollins College, Florida, USA, visited Croatia in 2006, held several specialized workshops on franchising (for bankers, lawyers and consultants) and had conversations with several young local emerging franchise companies. He especially liked the example of San Francisco Coffee House, to which he foresees international success, and the idea to write and publish a case on emergence and development of this Croatian franchise was born. » Read more…