apartment with his wife in Hangzhou‚ China‚ when he came up with the idea for Alibaba. That little idea‚ of course‚ evolved into one of the biggest tech companies on the planet and made Ma a billionaire many times over. Just like the garages where Hewlett-Packard‚ Apple and Google were started‚ the apartment in Hangzhou is now a shrine—another sacred spot in the tech world. Alibaba.com is the flagship company of Alibaba Group‚ is the world’s largest online business-to-business trading platform
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Case: Alibaba Competing in China and Beyond Electric commerce (e-commerce) is the buying and selling of products or services over an electronic medium like the internet. The advantages of e-commerce are speedy transactions‚ less travel‚ low operational costs‚ ability to reach a large customer base‚ and round the clock buying and selling. Some of the disadvantages of e-commerce are the minimum amounts of customer to company interactions which leads to trust issues‚ e-commerce is prone to fraud and
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According to case study from Harvard Business School‚ “Alibaba dominates China’s Internet and logistics space with over 600 million subscribers‚ and nearly a quarter trillion dollars of annual transactions. A combination of Amazon and eBay‚ it holds an 80 per cent share of the e-commerce market in the world’s second largest economy.” In recent years‚ rising labour and raw material costs have been amajor challenge faced by Chinese exporters. Small businesses‚ were effected the most they often need
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Competitive advantage to Corporate strategy. A diversified company has 2 levels of strategy: 1. Business unit (competitive): how to create competitive advantage in each business? 2. Corporate (companywide): concerns two different questions: what businesses the corporation should be in and how the corporate office should manage the array of business units? Most corporate strategies have dissipated instead of created shareholder value. Now we have to rethink to corporate strategy according
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MGMT 614 CORPORATE STRATEGY SMU MBA (PART-TIME) 2015 Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 2. ALIBABA BACKGROUND AND HISTORY 3 2.1. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF ALIBABA 3 2.2 MISSION/VISION 6 3. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS 7 3.1. BUSINESS ANALYSIS 8 3.1.1 Overview 8 3.2.2 Domestic retail market 9 3.2.3 Global wholesale market (Alibaba.com) 16 3.2.4 Domestic wholesale market (1688.com) 17 3.2.5 Global retail market(AliExpress.com) 18 3.2.6 Cloud computing and Internet Infrastructure 19
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Alibaba: Competing in China and Beyond Individual Report Intercultural Management Professor: Dr. Jacobo Ramirez Aalto University School of Economics Bachelor´s Degree Program in International Business Mikkeli Campus September 3‚ 2012 Matti Uusivirta Introduction In this report I will examine the case “Alibaba: Competing in China and Beyond.” Alibaba under the leadership of Jack Ma‚ its founder has transformed into one of the most successful e-commerce companies in China. In
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Corporate Social Responsibility is a form of corporate action enforced both by the firm’s regulation and sometimes government law to increase beneficial social impacts of a firm’s behavior. When doing so‚ Companies usually synergize their business goals with the CSR goals. However‚ some companies announce false CSR values in order to gain social reputation and government support‚ thus it is necessary to assess the authenticity of corporate CSR. The main goal of this Corporate Social Audit is to identify
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Alibaba.com’s Brief Company Background On November 6‚ 2007‚ Alibaba.com debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange‚ raising US$1.5 billion to become the world’s biggest Internet stock offering since Google’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. On the first trading day‚ frenzied purchases of the stock pushed prices up to by 193%‚ the fourth largest first day gain in Hong Kong’s stock exchange in three years. The closing price of US$5.09 per share gave Alibaba.com a value of about US$25.6 billion
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1. Lock-in effect is the phenomenon whereby technologies remain dominant as a result of large sunk investment costs‚ complimentary technologies‚ and widespread usage. Since Alibaba.com is the first portal market mover in China‚ it will be difficult to create another portal market which is just as successful as Alibaba.com. The lock-in effect causes people to have preference for Alibaba.com than any other portal market because they have already established their brand. Some customers also develop
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Organization Theory – Alibaba case: “Why organizational structure affected Alibaba’s IPO” Introduction and Historical Overview Over recent years the external environment and the marketplace have become increasingly dynamic and competitive‚ with progressive consolidation of the market leaders and continuing need of companies to adapt their structure towards our demanding society. This trend has led Alibaba Group Holding ltd. to conduct some organizational considerations before being listed on the
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