* Chapter 11: The Strategy of International Business * Chapter 12: Country Evaluation and Selection Read the case study “The Globalization of eBay” below and incorporate into your analysis responses to the following questions: 1. What is eBay’s core competency? How does it relate to its chosen strategy? 2. How would you explain how eBay has decided to configure and coordinate its value chain? 3. Would you characterize eBay’s value chain as virtual or real? Why? 4. Consider
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Online will allow eBay to enter the Chinese rapidly growing market. In 2007‚ China experienced a technology boom in which more people were using the Internet than ever before. Besides the rocket increase of Internet usage in China‚ E-Commerce is growing as well. With the power and influence of Tom Online‚ eBay has a unique opportunity to grab the market share of a billion people in China. EBay can benefit a lot from the joint venture with Tom online. Tom Online will help eBay reach millions of
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also exist‚ division to division‚ office to office. In this part of this group assignment I will describe the organizational culture of one of the most famous internet companies in the world‚ which is also the largest marketplace in the internet – EBay. Many articles and books have been written in recent years about culture in organizations‚ usually referred to as "Corporate Culture." The dictionary defines culture as "the act of developing intellectual and moral faculties‚ especially through
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Case: Taobao VS eBay China This case deals with the competition of dominant position in China’s online market between domestic player Taobao and global internet C2C service leader eBay. EachNet was copyed from eBay’s business model. As it confronted the difficulties raising capital‚ eBay entered China with its acquisition of the EachNet in 2002. The previous Chinese operation was changed significantly to align it with eBay worldwide systems including listing categorization‚ location of servers
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eBay Case Threshold resources • Offices and facilities • IT server platforms and appropriate software • Personnel with in-depth IT knowledge • All other appropriate personnel • Sufficient customers and suppliers Threshold competences Unique resources • Being the first • Web 2.0 management skills • Electronic platform management skills • Leading technology expert • Active community of users • eBay brand • Partnering on the internet • Biggest electronic exchange platform SWOT analyse:
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Question 1 What are the business benefits to Amazon and eBay of opening up some of their database to developers and entrepreneurs? Do you agree with this strategy? Why or why not? Amazon and eBay have opened the database doors to thousands of developers and entrepreneurs since 2002. They realized very quickly the benefits of this‚ which was once thought of as risky experiment. A database is a collection of information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select the desired
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UVA-F-1357 EBAY INC. (A) Gary Bengier‚ Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations at eBay‚ clicked on the send button as he emailed the week’s financial update to Pierre Omidyar‚ the company’s 31-year old chairman. It was September 15‚ 1998 and Wall Street was still reeling from a summer of severe market volatility. Much of the market’s instability could be traced to bearish worries over a deepening and continuing economic crisis in Asia and other developing markets. Many investors
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Table of contents Introduction 3 E-Bay Company 4 The Chinese opportunity 6 The main problem 8 Tom EachNet 11 Benefits 11 Risks 12 Critics 12 Conclusion 14 References 15 Introduction E-Bay was the first company that made possible to sell products on the internet. Nowadays‚ internet takes a huge place in business activities and not only for B2C or B2B business but also in C2C. This last point is the main activity of E-Bay. But this system buyers and sellers never meet‚ they exchange
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The Internet Revolution Now‚ with the click of a button‚ consumers are buying just about anything imaginable‚ and all from the convenience of the internet. People no longer have to leave their homes‚ work or where ever there is internet access to make important purchases. Technology has advanced so that companies are conducting business around the world with out ever meeting. No longer do consumers or businessmen have to shake to complete a deal or a sale‚ but merely click down on the mouse
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What is an E- Commerce? Electronic commerce‚ commonly known as e-commerce or e-commerce‚ is a type of industry where the buying and selling of products or services is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce‚ electronic funds transfer‚ supply chain management‚ Internet marketing‚ online transaction processing‚ electronic data interchange (EDI)‚ inventory management systems‚ and automated
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