Alibaba had several Internet businesses focused on various e-commerce business models. Being one of the first companies to enter the Chinese Internet industry‚ Alibaba played a major role in bringing about an Internet revolution in China. It was launched with the vision of serving the small and medium enterprises in China and across the world. Alibaba also participate in search engine market and social-networking product. Jack Ma is founder of Alibaba. In 1995‚ he went to America and it was then
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share this big cake. Taobao (www.taobao.com)‚ a Chinese-based company which is a leading platform for C2C personal transactions‚ was founded in 2003 by the 450 million investment from world’s best B2B company——Alibaba. Taobao is a typical example of China E-business style. Taobao paid a lot of efforts in order to China and Asia’s market dominance‚ during a lot of difficulties and challenges especially in the competition with E-bay. But some problems still exist in Taobao’ credit system and logistics
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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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21/11/2011 E-Bay Strategy In China Alliance or Acquisition? Case Study Strategic Management Gabriela Šalamonová Barbora Jandová Pierrick Boissel Julien Meunier Alexandre Godet SUMMARY I. The Input Stage CAGE VRIO Analysis CPM matrix EFE matrix IFE matrix II. The Matching Stage BCG matrix SPACE matrix GSM matrix III. The Decision Stage Matrix Analysis QSPM matrix IV. Questions Assessment of eBay´s choice of market entry strategy for China‚ listing
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or think to adapt its strategy‚ Alibaba perfectly adapted to the local culture. By looking at the Tobago website you can tell that‚ it is a Chinese platform. To compete with eBay‚ Jack Ma (Alibaba’s founder) has given a strong local identity to Taobao(website). First‚ every member of the administration team had to choose a nickname‚
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PART III: COMPREHENSIVE CASES ICMR ISS Cenler for Management Research www.lcmrlndlo.oig Case 5 Alibaba in 2011: Competing in China & Beyond "Alibaba has a first-mover advantage that makes it very hard for competitors to chip away at their lead in the rnarket."i -DICK WEI‚ Analyst‚ J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.‚ 1 in 2007. "For LIS‚ the goal has been to build a company that lasts 102 years and a company that changes China. We ’re only six years old‚ so while other people may call us a success‚ we
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eBay first entered the Chinese market in 2002 by acquiring a 33% stake in its local counterpart‚ EachNet‚ followed by a full acquisition a year later in 2003. Critically assess eBay.s choice of market entry strategy for China‚ listing both the advantages and disadvantages of its acquisition strategy. As we know‚ eBay’s China expansion strategy can be considered as failure‚ despite the fact that eBay entered this potentially rewarding market with caution. This cautious strategy was very unusual for
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Group 9 Hongliang Wang 7/24/2014 Does eBay deal effectively with its external environment? First of all‚ I want to separate the eternal environment to three parts‚ one is eBay’s American external environment‚ one is European and Australian external environment and another one is eBay’s international external environment. In my opinion‚ eBay’s was good at dealing effectively with American and European and Australian external environment. The reason is eBay’s creator Pierre Omidyar and his
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helped match China’s small businesses with foreign trading partners (Alibaba.com)‚ A domestic B2B marketplace (Alibaba.com.cn)‚ China’s largest online shopping website providing a platform for both retailers and individuals to sell virtually anything (Taobao)‚ Online payment services (Alipay)‚ Internet-based business management solutions (Alisoft)‚ Online advertising exchange (Alimama)‚ and an entertainment portal (China Yahoo!). b.1. This brand and line extension of products helped designate Alibaba
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essentially changing how the website originally operated. Since then‚ the company has lost most of their market share to local competitor Taobao. After several years eBay then decided to partner with Beijing-based Tom Online. This indicated that eBay failed to adapt to local needs and successfully compete with China’s online auction market leader‚ Taobao. This shows that eBay failed to create a community effect in China as they did with their other international markets through their
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