eBay: Expanding into Asia On September 3‚ 1995‚ Pierre Omidyar founded eBay in San Jose‚ California. Pierre and his wife‚ Pamela Wesley‚ had a vision that included creating a marketplace online where people could share the same interests. This vision also included a format that could create a fair and open meeting ground where prices were determined purely by the market. The site was based on five main values: people are basically good; everyone has something to contribute; an honest‚ open
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1. Why has eBay struggled in Japan‚ China and other Asia markets? eBay is an online auction service whose business model is ideally suited to the Web. EBay stores no inventory and ships no products. Instead‚ it derives its revenue from the movement of information‚ an ideal task for the Internet. EBay has taken its model to numerous foreign markets and been successful‚ particularly in England‚ France‚ and Germany‚ however‚ eBay has failed to achieve the same success in the Asian markets. There
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eBay: Expanding into Asia John Kozloski BUSN412 Business Policy June 16‚ 2011 Case Analysis eBay: Expanding into Asia Company: eBay: Expanding into Asia Industry: Online Auction Industry Company Website: (www.ebay.com) COMPANY BACKGROUND: The founder of the online auction site “eBay” is a computer programmer Pierre Omidyar in San Jose‚ California‚ established on September 3‚ 1995. The primary function of eBay is online auctions and uses to reach a wide range of individuals all over
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Pierre Omidyar founded EBay on September 3‚ 1995 after many years of successful business in the United States eBay decided to expand its business to Asia; unfortunately business was not as successful in Asia as it was in the United States. (1) Understanding the four principles of marketing will help explain why eBay did not succeed in Asia. Product‚ Place‚ Price and Promotion are rules that eBay did not take into consideration by or clearly understand before proceeding into unknown territory.
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1. Country specific advantages are the advantages which can be captured by any producer in that particular country. For LVMH‚ which is originated from France‚ can benefit from some privileges of France: Country of Origin: ¡§Made in France¡¨ represents classics and quality so that people are loyal to the luxurious products manufactured in France. France is also a leading luxurious market worldwide which brings France reputation on high-end product. Good supply: Excellent and the best textiles
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Case Study 10 1. Contrast eBay’s original business model with its latest proposed business model. eBay’s original business model was to attract sellers to auction goods‚ products‚ and collectibles whether they’re brand new or pre owned. They relied heavily on the sellers to gain their income. Now‚ eBay’s business model has changed quite a bit. The majority of sellers are now big retailers selling out of season or overstocked products at a fixed price. Also‚ they rely heavily on paypal for revenue
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1. Which internal and external factors have helped Reliance group to grow into its current position? Reliance group is an example of a well-managed company that has been able to take advantage of interior competitive advantage possibilities as well as exterior ones. On one hand‚ Reliance started out with Dhirubai Ambani by borrowing money from the Indian government‚ shifting towards textiles made out of synthetic plastic fibers and receiving benefits from government incentives and political
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Question 1 What are the competitive advantages that contributed to the success of eBay using the value-chain analysis or RBV concept? In 21st century the internet population started rising across various countries of Asia and eBay is the largest and leading provider of online auction for consumer-to-consumer in the world. Using the Resource-Based View concept‚ we will first identify the three key types of resources that eBay possess‚ and these are the competitive advantages that contributed to
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1. What are the greatest opportunities and threats existing in eBay’s current external environment? One of the great opportunity that eBay experienced is that when Pierre Omidyar realized that the Internet enabled market efficiency by allowing millions of buyers and sellers to view products and conduct transactions. With the help of Withman‚ eBay grew from a programmer’s experiment into a major publicly traded company‚ trading on NASDAQ with the symbol EBAY. Competitors are one of the threats
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4. eBay is positioned well to successfully compete with its top three competitors‚ Amazon‚ Google and Overstock. Table 1 provides a financial comparison of eBay with its top three competitors. eBay is a distant third from Google with a market capitalization of $64 billion but is first or second in key ratio comparisons (eBay Direct Competitor‚ 2012). Specifically‚ eBay is first or second in several key ratios such as Gross Margin‚ Operating Margin‚ Earnings Per Share and Price/Earnings. The Operating
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