US Airline Industry – Porter’s Five Forces The year 2011 was another dismal one for US airlines in terms of financial performance. Despite an increase in both passenger numbers and revenues for the year‚ profits were down on 2010. In total‚ US airlines earned net profits of about $0.4 billion‚ representing a net margin of less than 1%. The dire financial state of the industry was underlined by AMR (the parent of American Airlines) entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2011. This ended AMR’s
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AIR ASIA E-COMMERCE STRATEGIES Low cost per average seat kilometer AirAsia focused on ensuring a competitive cost structure as its main business strategy. It has been able to achieve a cost per average seat kilometer (ASK) of 2.5 cents‚ half that of Malaysia Airlines and Ryanair and a third that of EasyJet. AirAsia can lease the B737-300s aircraft at a very competitive market rates due to the harsh global market conditions for the second-hand aircrafts because of the September 11th event in 2001
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ENABLING E-COMMERCE IN INDIA Amarjit Singh Department of Computer Science‚ HP University Shimla‚ India aj_singh_6@yahoo.co.uk M.P.Thapliyal Department of Computer Science‚HNB Garhwal University‚ Srinagar(Garhwal)‚ Uttaranchal‚ India mathuraprasad1@rediffmail.com M.M.S.Rauthan Department of Computer Science‚HNB Garhwal University‚ Srinagar(Garhwal)‚ Uttaranchal‚ India mms_rauthan@yahoo.com D.K.Joshi Department of Computer Science‚ Amravati university‚ Amravati (Maharashtra)‚ India Dine_joshi@rediffmail
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-1Successful examples such as Amazon.com and Dell have significant implications to the potentials for e-Retail businesses to take over the market shares of their traditional retailing competitors. This phenomenon can be explained using Porter’s five forces: Supplier Power- In the case of Amazon.com‚ like its retailing competitors‚ its supplier companies are mainly publishers. Just as many readers‚ there are thousands of publishers in the world‚ thus they are not concentrated at all. The 24-hour
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The History Of Ecommerce‚ The Early Years In the 1960s‚ very early on in the history of Ecommerce‚ its purpose was to exchanging electronic data long distance. In these early days of Ecommerce‚ users consisted of only very large companies‚ such as banks and military departments‚ who used it for command control communication purposes. This was called EDI‚ and was used for electronic data interchange. In the late 1970s a new protocol was developed known as ASC X12 which was used for the exchange
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International Barriers to E-commerce Aravind Alluri Abstract In the recent years‚ the internet has been known for an impressive evolution‚ having a major impact on all aspects of life esp.‚ e-commerce (EC). This paper mainly explains the EC and also identifies the various international barriers to e-commerce and they can be evaluated for EC success. Introduction E-commerce is a combination of three different areas of study‚ namely technology‚ business and law/policy. EC is a kind of electronic
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Mxxxxx Student Number : xxxxxx CB587 – E-Commerce and Business Individual Project involving the evaluation of a website Choice of the website: http://ikks.com [3894 words] 1. (a) In this paper I will introduce my project of analyzing IKKS‚ a French online retail clothes website. The IKKS Company is part of the Zannier Group. This group
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PORTERS The threat of potential new entrants (High) High capital required to enter into mobile industry which needed large investment on technology‚ distribution‚ service outlets and plant. Difficulty for customers in switching cost‚ when they are satisfied with their current product as well as difficultly for new entrants to have product differentiation because customers had already familiar with those established mobile companies‚ therefore new entrants have to spend a lot on branding and
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E-commerce This is an introductory look at the science of Internet marketing. I will discuss a) Internet marketing frameworks for topics such as online consumer buying behavior‚ establishing and maintaining customer relationships‚ integrating the Internet into a marketing program and coordinating online and offline marketing practice‚ and b) issues in Internet marketing‚ such as community‚ privacy and auctions. I will also investigate aspects of website design‚ consumer behavior and satisfaction
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An analysis of the e-service literature Introduction: Recent advances in technology have created a surge in “technology-based self-service” (Dabholkar et al. 2003). Such developments are changing the way that service firms and consumers interact‚ and are raising a host of research and practice issues relating to the delivery of e-service. E-service is becoming increasingly important not only in determining the success or failure of electronic commerce (Yang et al.‚ 2001)‚ but also in providing
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