1. How does Alibaba create a competitive advantage? Is this advantage sustainable? a) Alibaba hoped to pool enough stable transaction volume to negotiate bulk discounts from service providers and capture part of that discount for itself. As Ma put it‚ “If one million users are transacting daily‚ Citibank and UPS will come to me. We can offer a discount to customers in exchange for a commission. b) It also helped that Alibaba Group offered a host of services promoting online trade including:
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2. Business Model 3. Five Forces Analysis 4. The Financial Analysis 5. SWOT Analysis 6. Conclusion 1. Background Alibaba Group(Chinese: 阿里巴巴)has operated in Hangzhou which is a e-commerce and e-auction company and specializing in global trading. It was founded in 1999 by Ma Yun operates total six e-commerce sub-companies. Alibaba Group operate different aspects of trading tomakes it easy for anyone to buy or sell online anywhere in the world. Sub-companies which included:
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According to case study from Harvard Business School‚ “Alibaba dominates China’s Internet and logistics space with over 600 million subscribers‚ and nearly a quarter trillion dollars of annual transactions. A combination of Amazon and eBay‚ it holds an 80 per cent share of the e-commerce market in the world’s second largest economy.” In recent years‚ rising labour and raw material costs have been amajor challenge faced by Chinese exporters. Small businesses‚ were effected the most they often need
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of business in Alibaba is from C2C to B2C‚ which is from pay to finance(Olson‚ P 2014). But in the field of mobile Internet‚ Alibaba has been lacked of support. If it can effectively stabilize its market position and long-term advantage‚ which has been the focus of Alibaba’s strategic thinking. Indeed‚ Sina Weibo and Momo were taken over by Alibaba‚ which the two social heights occupied can help to make up for the short board of Alibaba’s social networking. And it also help Alibaba closer to the distance
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Alibaba.com’s Brief Company Background On November 6‚ 2007‚ Alibaba.com debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange‚ raising US$1.5 billion to become the world’s biggest Internet stock offering since Google’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. On the first trading day‚ frenzied purchases of the stock pushed prices up to by 193%‚ the fourth largest first day gain in Hong Kong’s stock exchange in three years. The closing price of US$5.09 per share gave Alibaba.com a value of about US$25.6 billion
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1. Lock-in effect is the phenomenon whereby technologies remain dominant as a result of large sunk investment costs‚ complimentary technologies‚ and widespread usage. Since Alibaba.com is the first portal market mover in China‚ it will be difficult to create another portal market which is just as successful as Alibaba.com. The lock-in effect causes people to have preference for Alibaba.com than any other portal market because they have already established their brand. Some customers also develop
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MGMT 614 CORPORATE STRATEGY SMU MBA (PART-TIME) 2015 Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 2. ALIBABA BACKGROUND AND HISTORY 3 2.1. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF ALIBABA 3 2.2 MISSION/VISION 6 3. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS 7 3.1. BUSINESS ANALYSIS 8 3.1.1 Overview 8 3.2.2 Domestic retail market 9 3.2.3 Global wholesale market (Alibaba.com) 16 3.2.4 Domestic wholesale market (1688.com) 17 3.2.5 Global retail market(AliExpress.com) 18 3.2.6 Cloud computing and Internet Infrastructure 19
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apartment with his wife in Hangzhou‚ China‚ when he came up with the idea for Alibaba. That little idea‚ of course‚ evolved into one of the biggest tech companies on the planet and made Ma a billionaire many times over. Just like the garages where Hewlett-Packard‚ Apple and Google were started‚ the apartment in Hangzhou is now a shrine—another sacred spot in the tech world. Alibaba.com is the flagship company of Alibaba Group‚ is the world’s largest online business-to-business trading platform for
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TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG Alibaba: Competing in China and Beyond Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights IBDEM Prof. Dr. Johannes Stephan By Lu Hui Chin (57963) Yang Limeng (57938) 05.05.2014 Freiberg‚ Germany 2 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………… 3 2. History and Development of Alibaba ……………………………………………. 3 3. Alibaba’s Competition Advantages ……………………………………………… 4 3.1 Biggest market share of E-commerce in China …………………………….. 4 3.2
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Alibaba case study - E-commerce marketplace in China Alibaba.com is one of the leading B2B e-commerce companies in China. It provides a marketplace connecting small and medium-sized buyers and suppliers from China and around the world. Tags (view related articles): Case studies‚ Business-to-Business (B2B) Alibaba’s web presence includes an international marketplace (www.alibaba.com) focuses on global importers and exporters and a China marketplace (www.alibaba.com.cn) which focuses on suppliers
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