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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com: A Smiling Community with a Dream Since its humble beginnings in 1999‚ when it was launched by Jack Ma and 17 other co-founders‚ Alibaba.com has become the world’s largest online business-to-business global trading marketplace‚ with 2.5 million and 14 million registered users in its international and Chinese domestic marketplaces respectively (refer to Appendix 1 for key development milestones). In 2004‚ the Alibaba websites boasted an estimated combined transaction volume of more than US$4.5 billion
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whether it is aligned with performance and the power of shareholders in setting it and how well it is being disclosed. Talking about the corporate governance structure of Alibaba Group Holdings Limited‚ it could be first looking into the Board of Directors’ and its special “Partnership System” of Alibaba Group. Alibaba was founded in 1999 by Former English Teacher‚ Jack Ma‚ and his associates and it is nowadays the world’s largest E-Commerce Company. According to the Wall Street Journal‚ the company
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largest initial public offering (IPO) was successfully completed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)‚ U.S.‚ and the total IPO amount has reached up to $25 billion (Chen. Mac. Solomon. 2014). Alibaba‚ the miracle creator‚ used only 15-year’s development to take the seat in the Wall Street and build an e-commercial empire. The NYSE’s IPO is the signal to tell global investors and competitors that Alibaba is ready to join the global market competition. For Alibaba‚ going global means new frontier‚ however
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of Alibaba.com Website-http://www.alibaba.com/ E-model-b2b and b2c Alibaba.com is an online business-to-business trading platform for small businesses. The company was founded by Jack Ma and 17 other people in 1999‚ and now day is the flagship company of Alibaba Group. It claims it had more than 79 million registered users in more than 240 countries and regions as of March 31‚ 2012. Alibaba.com has three major business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces. The company’s English language international
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Case write-off Alibaba Group Introduction: Jack Ma‚ who has a foreseen‚ started the Alibaba Company after his visit to U.S. He found that China jump into the online commerce market really soon. The company was focused on B2B business and its initial goal is to help small Chinese manufacturers connect with buyers. Alibaba grew quickly and still growing. It launched several wholly owned subsidiaries‚ such as Taobao‚ Alipay‚ Alisoft. Alibaba group is considered to be a huge success among
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of Yahoo to Alibaba changed over time since 2005? 2005 was a tough year for Alibaba. Because of the US$100 million investment in China by eBay‚ Alibaba and its subsidiary – Taobao fell into a severe price war against eBay which hindered the profitability of the group and much more capital was needed for operational and technological improvement in order to win the battle. Under this circumstance‚ Alibaba formed a partnership with Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo invested US$1 billion in Alibaba and transferred
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Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction What is Portal? A portal is known as links page which presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. It may contain services that provide standard search engine feature‚ e-mail‚ news‚ information‚ database and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases‚ which otherwise would have been different entities altogether
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Why eBay failed in China The main reason eBay failed in China was because eBay failed to recognize that the Chinese market and the business environment are very different from that of the West. EBay sent a German manager to lead the China operation and brought in a chief technology officer from the United States. Neither one spoke Chinese or understood the local market. It was eBay’s biggest mistake. Second‚ because the top management team didn’t understand the local market‚ they spent a lot of
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B2B E-Commerce Players in India Adopt BPO Models–A CaseBased Study Ranjit Goswami (Ranjit.goswami@gmail.com) S K De (drskde@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in) B. Datta (bd@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in) Indian Institute of Technology‚ Kharagpur Abstract. India is an established global leader in IT‚ ITES and BPO sectors due to the various global and local developments over the last decade. The similarities in technology and capabilities‚ and the clustering tendency of these sectors should have led India to the
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