Contents Introduction: Amazon is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle‚ Washington‚ It is the biggest online retailer in world‚ although many consider that it is more a leading software developer or "information systems’ company with a little pick‚ pack and ship service" (Hof‚ 2003). This world-class retailer‚ which began doing business as an online bookseller in the mid 90s‚ has changed with the time and currently it offers its customers a
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evolved into a marketplace for the world. Jeff Bezos who is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com wanted a name for his company that began with "A" so that it would appear early in alphabetic order. He began looking through the dictionary and settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different" and it was the river he considered the biggest in the world‚ as he hoped his company would be. Since 2000‚ Amazon’s logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z‚ representing customer satisfaction
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www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol. 8‚ No. 10: August 2012 Managing Stakeholders: An Integrative Perspective on the Source of Competitive Advantage Minyu Wu’ ’ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia Correspondence: Minyu Wu‚ School of Business‚ Curtin Universify Sarawak‚ CDT 250‚ 98009 Miri‚ Sarawak‚ Malaysia. Tel: 60-8-544-3844. E-mail: minyu.wu@curtin.edu.my Received: March 19‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ass.v8nl0pl60 Abstract Despite the enormous amount of academic
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Every business has stakeholders involved. A stakeholder is anyone who has a claim in some way to a company’s products‚ operations‚ markets‚ industry‚ and outcomes (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ Ferrell 31). Some stakeholders are more involved than others. Members that are needed for the company to maintain are referred to as primary stakeholders‚ whereas others are called secondary stakeholders. Primary stakeholders can be identified as employees‚ customers‚ investors‚ and shareholders and can also be governments
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Can Amazon book a spot in South Korea? 1. Introduction of Amazon.com‚ Inc. With the technological development the last decades and the rise of computers and Internet‚ new business concepts have emerged‚ including electronic business (e-Business) and electronic commerce (E-commerce). Being a first mover and pioneer in the fast growing E-commerce sector‚ the American-based company Amazon.com‚ Inc. revolutionized the entire industry‚ which lead to major “creative destruction” (Schumpeter‚ 1942). Founded
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Stakeholders A stakeholder is a person‚ group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organization’s actions‚ objectives and policies. There is two different types of stake holders‚ these are internal and external. Internal stakeholders are people who are on the inside of the business that already serve the organisation‚ these include staff‚ managers‚ board members etc. external stakeholders are from outside of the company but
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12/17/2013 Professor Andersen Amazon.com Amazon is one of the largest companies selling products online. They specialize in vendors and/or have individuals send an item to the Amazon company warehouse and Amazon.com can sell the product. This company is versatile and sells all items from sleep wear to cook ware. Basically‚ vendors‚ individuals‚ and Amazon’s warehouse can all sell goods and make it available to do so. Like all companies‚ Amazon has policies and procedures to protect both the
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Case 4: Amazon: One E-Store to Rule Them All 1) The CEO of Amazon.com‚ Jeff Bezos‚ effectively employed both intuitive and systematic thinking when he developed the Kindle for sale. Through Bezos’s creative idea in the Kindle‚ one can see that he makes decisions that seem to be based off of intuitive thinking. With this approach‚ people make decisions according to their past experiences and gut feelings‚ as opposed to analyzing all of the facts. Bezos took a risk in the creation of the Kindle
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Business and Society Review 110:1 59– 76 Applying the Agency and Stakeholder Theories to the Enron Debacle: An Ethical Perspective Blackwell Oxford‚ Business BASR © 0045-3609 O 1 110 BUSINESS CULPAN riginal 2004 Center UK Article and and Publishing‚ and TRUSSEL Society for SOCIETY Business Ltd. Review REVIEW Ethics at Bentley College REFIK CULPAN AND JOHN TRUSSEL INTRODUCTION W e examine the infamous Enron debacle from an ethical perspective by defining its theoretical underpinnings and analyzing
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Founder Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994 which became a multi-billion dollar company. Jeff wanted to provide service to people all over the world with books‚ but end up meeting the needs of much more. People doesn’t have to go out their home to looks for an item all over the city. Amazon.com owns many other online companies such as Zappos.com‚ Alexa internet‚ IMDb‚ Lovefilm‚ The book depositary‚ Woot‚ and many more. Even if someone doesn’t order anything off of amazon‚ you could be ordering items
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