1. What was Alibaba Group’s motivation for diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao? Does it make sense? Alibaba Group’s motivation for diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao was mainly because of the rise of eBay in China. Jack Ma‚ the founder of Alibaba‚ observed that the entry of eBay through EachNet‚ which held an 85% market share‚ was a threat to Alibaba. He was especially concerned that the rise of eBay would encroach their existing B2B
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diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao? Does it make sense? Alibaba group felt that it was under threat from eBay as eBay had a large market share in C2C business. Alibaba felt that eBay may go into the B2B business which Alibaba is in‚ and their business may be under threat. Hence Alibaba decided to go into the C2C business with Taobao to compete with eBay for the fear of eating into Alibaba business. It made sense because Taobao managed to overtake eBay’s share of the C2C business
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1. What was Alibaba Group’s motivation for diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao? Does it make sense? The motivation came from the fear of the rise of eBay in China. It invested US$30 million in EachNet in 2002‚ and at that time‚ EachNet commanded an 85% market share. Just in the following year‚ acquired the remaining 67% stake in EachNet‚ rebranding the site as eBay EachNet. EBay has very big ambition in Chinese market and it is another company that understood Chinese
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Taobao VS eBay in China eBay China eBay‚ as a global company with a global strategy that trades across many nations‚ regarded itself very much as an American company‚ founded in 1995. Under ’ pioneered online person to person trading ’‚ " a web-based community that bought buyers and sellers together " approaches ( Stockdale and Felstead‚ 2010) ‚ currently the company listing sites in 29 countries and defines the C2C model of e-business around world. eBay has became the dominant online trading
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Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise ‚[1] or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.[2] It can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. It is an important term for judging a country or region’s development. The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society‚ such as roads
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Types of Infrastructure Infrastructure is divided into two major classifications‚ "hard" and "soft". "Hard" is obviously the roads‚ bridges‚ etc. It also relates to the big physical networks essential for the functioning of a modern industrial nation Hard infrastructures refers to physical facilities or installations needed to operate‚ manage and monitor a system with the intention that the structures to be permanent whereas "soft" infrastructure is human capital and institutions that develop it
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CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE (ICMI): CONTEMPORARY ISSUES & WAY FORWARD (February 15-16‚ 2013) CALL FOR PAPERS University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) Dehradun – is Asia’s & India’s first energy & core sector University. It has now repositioned itself as the nation-builders’ university. Its College of Management & Economic Studies (CMES)‚ focused on infrastructure and core sectors‚ announces its first “International Conference on Management of Infrastructure (ICMI): Contemporary
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Critical Infrastructures 1 Running head: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES Critical Infrastructures Public Safety Organizational Leadership Running head: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES 2 The jurisdiction that I chose to analyze and critique is Charleston‚ SC which happens to be my home. However‚ that is not the
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Telecommunications Infrastructure Construction in Japan to 2019: Market Databook Released On 28th September 2015 Synopsis Telecommunications Infrastructure Construction in Japan to 2019: Market Databook contains detailed historic and forecast market value data for the telecommunications infrastructure construction industry‚ including a breakdown of the data by construction activity (new construction‚ repair and maintenance‚ refurbishment and demolition). The databook provides historical and
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INFRASTRUCTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA Introduction 1. Malaysia has achieved substantial success in its rural development‚ especially in reducing the incidence of poverty in both rural and urban. In the process‚ the rural areas have been developed with infrastructures‚ utility‚ social amenities‚ health and school facilities and etc to support the economic development of the country as well as increasing the quality of life of her populace. The productivity and incomes of the rural
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