advanced data- centric cloud computing service platform, Alipay (www.alipay.com)- A third- party online payment platform. (Alibaba, 2014) Alibaba has offices in more than 50 cities in China, Korea, Japan, the USA, Europe. Since September 2009, Alibaba.com had gained 45.276 million registered users, which add up to be an increase of 27% since the previous year. Of th... ... middle of paper ... ...rs. Conclusions and Future Study Reference Chua, R., Morris, M., & Ingram, P. (2009)
transaction protection and authentication, instant messaging, member reputation and after sales services such as warranty programs. All these services have accelerated the company 's achievement. Pricing is another strategy that led to the success of Alibaba.com; the company has adopted a number of pricing strategies such as; product line pricing, penetration pricing and discounts. These pricing methods used are fair to the business-to-business customers and have increased the sales of the company. Small
Introduction: Leadership is a vital component that leads effective teamwork. According to Mullins (2010), a good leader will influence his talented staff and their actions will lead the good performance. This report is going to examine the influences of the Ma Yun’s leadership on the Alibaba Group. Business environment Nowadays, high-speed development of the technology has changed the daily life and the computer and the Internet have become the mainstream in China markets. The expansion of the Internet
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Amazon. Alibaba owns stakes in all sorts of things, but operates chiefly through three sites: Taobao, China's biggest shopping site; Tmall, which specialises on online sales of branded goods and focuses on China's fast-growing middle class; and Alibaba.com, which connects Chinese exporters with companies elsewhere in the world (Wright, 2014). Although Alibaba has been well established
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We did a SWOT analysis to further understand Alibaba’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunity and threats. Alibaba’s strengths would definitely be the high brand awareness in China and strong brand capability that makes Alibaba the most favorable e-commerce in that country, the same way customers in United States feel about Amazon. In contrast, the weaknesses that Alibaba currently facing are low brand awareness outside China, low engagement with buyers and its revenue is limited to the supplier’s membership
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Amazon sites 6,805 14.7% Apple.com Worldwide Sites 3,426 7.4% Samsung Group 2,759 5.9% Flipkart.com 2,675 5.8% Homeshop18.com 2,286 4.9% Naaptol.com 2,145 4.6% Bookmyshow.com 2,125 4.6% Myntra.com 2,110 4.5% Priceindia.com 2,047 4.4% Alibaba.com corporation 1,973 4.3% E-Commerce has become very popular. Every retailer wants to become an E-retailer and want to be a part of the E-world. Earlier, there were no such concepts of retailing. Michael Aldrich invented online shopping in