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 the
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Strategies for Competing in a Changed China Magazine: Summer 2004Research Feature July 15‚ 2004 Peter Williamson and Ming Zeng This paper presents the results of the authors’ detailed research into competition between multinationals and local Chinese companies in 10 industries over the past five years. They conclude that local companies are now threatening multinationals’ plans to conquer the China market. They analyse this new competitive game in terms of a dynamic battle of competencies. Multinationals
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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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China as a Tourism Destination for Foreign Students Introduction In the following scenario I would like to examine China as a tourism product and also as a tourist attraction from the point of view of foreign students. In the winter of 2008 I had the privilege to spend 2 weeks in China. My visit was rather unusual‚ for the fact that my hosts were not locals or either hotels‚ but rather a group of foreign students then living and studying in Beijing. My main purpose of visit was not educational
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Chapter 3 The Role of Destination in Business Travel and Tourism The Definition of a Destination Destination is a place where the main focus of the business travel trip will be‚ whether a conference‚ a sales mission or an incentive travel package The Distinction between Destination and Venues Venues are supposed to provide one or some of the services needed by the traveler While destination are meant to provide virtually every service the traveler needs However‚ the distinction has become
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billion people ‚ China and India- neighbors across the Himalayas- control a significant portion of world demand. Add to this the high GDP growth rates shown by the two economies in the past five years and you get what is now well recognized as the CHINDIA effect. But what if the two countries are pitted against each other rather than in collaboration? Which of these then emerges as a more favorable investment destination and why? On one hand there is People’s Republic of China‚ a totalitarian state
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Compare the strategy of FedEx and UPS‚ highlighting why one is scoring over the other. About China Courier Service Postal services were available in China more than 2‚500 years ago‚ modern postal services were offered in the country only since 1877. Known as the China Post‚ the postal services in China for a long time operated with obsolete equipment and few outlets. However‚ during the First World War‚ China Post was completely destroyed by the Japanese invasion. In 1946‚ the Ministry of Communication
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Competing with IT: The UPS Case Nabil Alghalith‚ Ph.D.‚ Truman State University Kirksville‚ MO INTRODUCTION: UPS United Parcel Service Inc. is an express carrier‚ package delivery company and a global provider of specialized transportation and logistic services. Over the course of more than 90 years‚ the Company has expanded from a small regional parcel delivery service into a global company. UPS delivers packages each business day for 1.8 million shipping customers to six million consignees
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Branding the Destination The tourism industry is a remarkable industry as it has brought positive effects in terms of intercultural exchange as well as economic growth to the tourism destination (UNWTO‚ 2011). The UNTWO (2007‚ p1) defines a destination as “the place visited that is central to the decision to take the trip”. The term ‘branding’ is often encountered in marketing classes however it does apply in the tourism aspect as well. It was more than two decades ago when Pritchard and Morgan
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CASE STUDY CHINA- Legal Growing Pains in a land of Opportunity The People’s Republic of China (PRC) commonly known as China‚ is the most populous state in the world with over 1.3 billion people. China is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China (CPC). Its capital city is Beijing. The People’s Republic of China is the world’s second largest economy after the United States by purchasing power parity($9.05 trillion in 2009) and the world’s fastest-growing major economy‚ with
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