IBMS216FM Case name : eBay Group members : Jeroen Dorst (0849963) Chun-Hou Ip (0850229) Fritzgerald Koeiman (0837237) Martijn Roos (0812417) Discussion questions 1. What are the ethical responsibilities of an organisation such as eBay? The ethical responsibilities of an organisation such as eBay are different from those of an organisation that directly sells their services or products to another organisation or individual. Organisations like eBay are merely a platform
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Vision As there is no vision stated in the case‚ hence we come out with a new vision for ebay as follows. EbayVision statement : “ To become the world’s leading e-commerce franchise in the world” In our opinion‚ the vision statement above is very clear that Ebay wants to be a leader in e-commerce world. Mission The Original Mission Statement: “We intend to continue to work toward our mission of creating the world’s leading ecommerce franchise by investing in our core Marketplaces
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can also be divided into basically the two types of sellers that list their products to be sold on eBay i.e. the corporate companies and the small businesses and the buyers that purchase the products from these sellers. All these buyers certainly have a strong bargaining power as they are needed to sustain the growth of eBay. Threat of new entrants Google‚ even though it is not in e-tailing or online auction is a potential competitor as it is a strong trusted brand that attracts traffic and has an
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In organized sports‚ match fixing‚ race fixing or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result‚ violating the rules of the game and often the law. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as race fixing. Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games. When a team intentionally loses a game‚ or does not score as high as it can‚ to obtain a perceived future competitive advantage (for instance
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eBay: “The world’s largest online marketplace”- A Case Study J.Gopalkrishnan* V.K Gupta** Abstract eBay‚ Inc. is the largest and most popular marketplace on the Internet‚ allowing members to buy and sell almost anything. Launched in 1995‚ about 147 million people now use eBay. An estimated 430‚000 people in the United States make all or most of their living by selling on eBay. eBay’s online payment service‚ called PayPal‚ enables transactions nearly anywhere in the world. eBay proclaims “trust” between
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sellers have made eBay Inc. the world’s largest and most popular Internet site for individuals and businesses to exchange goods. By 1999 eBay had 5.6 million registered users and listed over 3.1 million items for sale; by 2004 there were an estimated 65 million registered users from 150 countries‚ 971 million items for sale‚ and gross merchandise sales hit $15billion. eBay owns local sites in 19 countries‚ has stakes in another eight foreign nations‚ and provides users with its own online pay service‚
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Digital Marketing Strategy Jacob Orquin Department of Business Administration Aarhus University E-business models Chaffey & Smith (2008) The e-marketing plan Chaffey (2009) Online strategy model Guava Media‚ Nyborg (2009) Which KPI’s? Who are the customers? Qualitative/explorative analyses segments‚ position‚ messages Quatitative analyses Cross- & upsales‚ loyalty Qualify the customers/ market Touchpoint strategy Integration of digital strategy in corporate/ marketing
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Spot-fixing/Match-fixing The great damage done to the Cricket is by match-fixing allegations every now and then. Spot-fixing means that player or the whole team accepts money from the bookies to intentionally play badly. Players also have been taking money to give information about the pitch and the weather conditions. Generally players deny any kind of charges put on them‚ but in some cases players have admitted their involvement in either spot-fixing or illegal activities. For instance
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Case Analysis: EBay Inc. Introduction EBay Inc.‚ situated in San Jose‚ California‚ was founded by Pierre Omidyar in September 1995 as a marketplace for the sale of goods and services powered by a person-to-person on-line trading community. Sellers listed items for sale‚ and buyers bid on items of interested which was automated using EBay’s listing system to arrange items by category and topic. Focused market segment was the collectibles and developed based on a traditional auction house. Since
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PAULA ALINA GRP.1717‚SERIA AN II BUILDING AN ONLINE BRAND Many companies have launched their products or services online as a new business focus‚ but only a few of them have survived the competition and made profits. The most important key to an online business’s success is to create “brand value” for the customers. Although the concept of online brand has been discussed in previous studies‚ there is no empirical study on the measurement of online branding. A brand differentiates a product or
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