Alibaba- Corporate Advantage and Competiton

Successful firms capitalize on economies of scale & scope, create management structures and invest in research & development

Another strength is the bottom-up structure which allows subsidiaries’ managers to adjust quickly to a changing market. Allowing the operating management to make their own decisions helps the subsidiaries better adapt to new products and demand and leads to speedin up the decision making process.

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 rapidly leads the e-commence to develop and change the operation way of Chinese business. At present, there are many people who want to start-up a business on their own. Ma seizes the opportunity to establish a great stage ‘Alibaba’ for

The biggest problem of Alibaba Corporate Governance is management powers, because Alibaba Corporate Governance structure lack of stockholder rights and independent board representation to select board members and have a nominal in the management of the company. Although the board of directors in publicly traded companies always fail in their responsibility to protect the interests of shareholders. Alibaba has deprived even this minimal power ways from shareholders which isn’t sufficient respect of shareholder rights in the structures being proposed. In Alibaba has a permanent lock on control of the company but hold only a small minority of the equity capital known as the Alibaba Partnership. This

Firms that have selected a related diversification corporate-level strategy seek to exploit a. control shared among business-unit managers.b. economies of scope between business units.c. the favorable demand of buyers.d. market power.

* What organizational structure, management processes, and philosophy will foster superior performance from the company’s business units?

There are several factors that influence Evo’s organizational structure. The business strategy is one of the factors which influenced the company’s organizational structure. The decentralization structure fits well with Evo’s non-formalization strategy because non-formalization is a high-cost strategy (Phillips &Gully, 2014). The external environment of the company is also an influence on the company’s organizational structure. The growth of the company calls for flexibility within the organizational structure. Given the fact that Evo’s sales increased and they experienced growth estimated at

Read the case carefully and answer the following questions: 1.Till 2005, eBay EachNet was the leader in the Chinese e-commerce market, controlling more than half of it. But eBay EachNet soon lost its market leadership position to Taobao.com (Taobao). In this context, analyze the reasons that can be attributed to Taobao’s edge over eBay. 2.a. To enable people to trade with each other, Pierre Omidyar created a marketplace in September 1995 which was later called eBay. By mid 1997, eBay received one million page hits per

One major flaw built within the business model of Alibaba is its ability on controlling the merchants and their quality of goods. Since both Taobao and Tmall relied on third party sellers to provide goods and services, it lacks the ability to enforce strong quality control and eliminate counterfeit goods. In fact, consumers were well aware of it and this issue had already been damaging Alibaba’s reputation in online retailing markets. However, its major competitor, JD.com would be having much stronger abilities and incentives to eliminate these

Alibaba Group is one of the world’s most successful Chinese multinational corporations originally based in China. It is an e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business services through web portals for both international and domestic China trade. Alibaba launched various sites including Alibaba.com which was the first China’s commercial website launched in 1999. The purpose of Alibaba.com site is not just to connect Chinese supplier

The reason behind Alibaba’s success is its ability to tap into markets that its competitors struggle with by providing special services that target strategic needs of the Chinese population and its potential trading partners. Alibaba’s services are specifically catered to small to medium sized businesses(Liquori, 2009), by being an easily accessible advertising platform that is also cheap to set up. These small businesses can be discovered by other companies who search Alibaba for specific products rather than by brands. Furthermore, the escrow services offered by Alibaba in which its competitors are unable to provide, differentiates itself from the rest in

Businesses have numerous key departments which keep the structure running appropriately and supports the business to build and embellish in all worldwide markets. This report will consider what the key departments do for the business, in addition, this report will enlighten the research procedure used and significant complications which have been encountered throughout.

Alibaba is the largest leading e-commerce companies of B2B online retailer in China and it is giving a trading platform that associates worldwide purchasers to huge number of small medium enterprises to conduct business in their network. The market operate by Alibaba

After reading the case of the “Paradoxical Twins Acme and Omega Electronics”, I found Both Acme and Omega produce similar products and offer similar services. Acme president John Tyler is a very tough going individual and he is portrayed to be an autocratic individual because there is one way communication in Acme. The case provides an opportunity to evaluate both Acme and Omega’s organization structure of a business. Both companies used to have the same organizational structure but after they were sold to different investors, as a consequence of this, each company has its own procedures and company

Alibaba Group is the world's outstanding business-to-business e-commerce service company, which provides an efficient online trading platform for buyers and suppliers all over the world. It is China's largest e-commerce group which was founded by Jack Ma in 1999, and has developed into seven affiliated groups, namely Alibaba International Business Operations, Alibaba Small Business Operations, Taobao Marketplace, Tmall.com, Juhuasuan, e-Tao and Alibaba Cloud Computing (News, 2012). Besides, Alibaba Group has more than 24,000 employees in 70 cities which scattered in China, India, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States (News, 2012).