* 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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EBAY in Japan Pierre Omidyar‚ a software programmer created Auction Web which later became eBay in 1995. Over the next 11 years it would acquire 24 companies making it a very successful company. In the late 1990’s eBay began to explore opportunities in the international market. It’s website was gaining popularity in Canada‚ the UK‚ and Germany. As its popularity increased it began to set up websites in several European Countries including Korea and Australia. It soon began to venture out
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example Making eBay work Question 1 Analyse eBay’s strategic capability using an analytical framework(s) Threshold resources • IT server platforms and space • Offices and facilities • Appropriate personnel • Sufficient customers and suppliers Threshold competences • Account management • All other general managerial skills • Sophisticated ICT skills • Customers and suppliers who are competent Unique resources • The biggest on-line electronic exchange platform • The eBay brand • First
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DIVERSIFICATION. For companies‚ they all want to have bigger market share and earn more profit. So they will find many ways to penetration into the market like diversification. Diversification strategies are used to expand firms’ operations by adding markets‚ products‚ services‚ or stages of production to the existing business. The purpose of diversification is to allow the company to enter lines of business that are different from current operations.There are basically two broad forms of diversification
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BOYAN JOVANOVIC New YorkUniversity The Diversification of Production produce more than one product. In this sense their production is diversified‚ or horizontally integrated. This paper addresses two questions. First‚ why have firms become more diversified over the past century? And second‚ why are diversified firms more oriented toward research and development (R&D) than nondiversified firms? I tackle these two questions under the assumption that a firm diversifies to maximize its efficiency
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Adrian Clynes 1/18/13 International Management Reflection paper on eBay in Japan There are many reasons why things didn’t work for eBay; one of the main reasons was the dominance of Yahoo Auctions in japan. Since they are the first ones to get in the market‚ they have more experience of how to fit in the Japanese market and these leads to a series of things attract new sellers‚ which brought new buyers and according to Masahiro Inoue‚ president CEO of Yahoo Japan in auctions more buyers
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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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eBay started with the basic auction service‚ but eBay has refined OAMs by creating a unique business model‚ with specific features that other OAMs do not offer. First of all‚ eBay makes money by helping buyers meet sellers‚ where individuals can advertise items that they would want to sell and buyers can contact the sellers directly. Sellers ship the items directly to the highest bidder. Then‚ to ensure an safe online auction environment (sellers are paid for what they sell)‚ eBay has worked with
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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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History of eBay It all began in September 1995 when Pierre Omidyar a software developer for Apple computers decided to sell his broken laser pointer. He created originally called ‘‘AuctionWeb‘‘ site which was created on the very same server as his page devoted to research about the ebola virus. It came as a surprise when he found out that his broken laser pointer was sold for more than 14 dollars. He decided to contact the winning bidder asking why would he buy a broken thing for this amount of
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