ARE E-COMMERCE VALUATIONS UNREALISTIC There are expectations of a $100 billion firm in the e-commerce industry. The valuation bar has only been raised with every round of funding in e-commerce. A firm that is valued at $1bn in November 2013‚ reaches a valuation of $3bn within four months‚ it jumps to $7bn figure again four months after that? Nothing surprising there given the potential of the sector. But all this rush of money into the system‚ in a short span of time is what worries one. Investors
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steadily around the world and it creates an opportunities for regional and global e-commerce to develop. Therefore‚ by the impact of internet‚ both socioeconomic and infrastructural have created a major level of differentiation in the growth and acceptance of e-commerce at different regions of the world. This differentiation occurred in the field of socioeconomic and infrastructure. To identify the diffusion of e-commerce in the various locations of the world‚ they have been conducted different studies
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Customer Needs in e-Services 1 Running head: CUSTOMER NEEDS IN E-SERVICES How e-Services Satisfy Customer Needs: a Software-aided Reasoning Ziv Baida1‚2‚ Jaap Gordijn3‚ Hans Akkermans3‚ Hanne Sæle4 and Andrei Z. Morch4 1 Faculty of Economics and Business Administration‚ Free University Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands 2 e-Rational‚ Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands 3 Faculty of Sciences‚ Free University Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands 4 SINTEF Energy Research‚ Norway Customer Needs in e-Services 2
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Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 1 Capital Structure and Firm Performance in the Financial Sector: Evidence from Australia Vedran Skopljak School of Economics and Finance‚ La Trobe University Kingsbury Drive‚ Bundoora‚ Vic 3086‚ Australia Tel: 61-3-9479-1111 E-mail: vedran.skopljak@latrobe.edu.au Robin H. Luo (Corresponding author) Department of Finance‚ Wuhan University Luojia Hill‚ Wuhan 430072‚ China Tel: 86-27-6875-2740 E-mail: robin.h.luo@gmail.com Received: January 29‚ 2012 doi:10
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IILM INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Summer Internship Program – 2010 A PROJECT REPORT ON “Scoping the strategy on E-commerce for Whirlpool of India” At CORPORATE GUIDE: FACULTY GUIDE: Mr. Girish Banwait Ms. Ritu Khanna (General Manager- Institutional Sales)
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consequences of competition for the pricing and output decisions of firms are most easily established in the model of pure competition‚1 which requires that 1. Potential buyers and sellers are numerous and each is so small relative to the market that individual decisions about purchases or output do not noticeably affect market demand or supply‚ nor‚ consequently‚ do individual decisions affect the market price. 2. Firms in the industry produce a homogeneous (standardized) good.
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E-commerce and Aspects of Intellectual property Law/ 421 March 12‚ 2013 E-commerce and Aspects of Intellectual property Nowadays‚ e-commerce is a type of business which is utilized all around the world. It is crucial to be familiar with certain legal intellectual property rules and regulations. These rules include: privacy‚ ethics and security. The article “Management of Intellectual property rights” by Josephine Chinyang Lang reviews the growing global trends in intellectual
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The Rivalry among existing firms: strong The office supply industry has a large number of players with a high diversity of rivals. Competition is very furies between them because the office supply industry is so divers in product and services they provide; they include high volume office supply‚ warehouse clubs‚ online retailers‚ copy and print businesses‚ discount retailers and local and regional contract stationers. The large number of competitors in this industry‚ along with a lack of product
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for a start-up of an online brokerage business. It is not based on real company data. The name of the company‚ the co-owners‚ the contact information data are invented by the authors. There is a lot of information in the literature about what one needs to do when starting an online brokering business. One can also find information about what a business plan is and how to prepare it. This project is an attempt for a model of a business plan of a start-up company in the online brokering business‚ based
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Case Study4: the U.S. Department of Commerce: using IT to Tap Experts’ Know-How through Knowledge Management 1. What are the key businesses challenges facing companies in supporting their global marketing and expansion efforts? How is AskMe knowledge management system helping to meet this challenge? Explain. -The key business challenges facing companies are such as knowing what trade show to attend if the company is interested in selling medical equipment‚ what papers to file if the company is
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