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Alibaba.com In early 1999, Jack Ma and 17 other founders set up Alibaba. Alibaba first commercial venture is Alibaba.com, an online platform that linked SME of Chinese and international manufacturers and buyers. The main reason of Alibaba success development was improving customers’ satisfaction by listening closely to them. The prove is Alibaba had attracted 32m members in 2007, with operating profits and revenues of $105.3m and of $289.5m respectively. Customers satisfaction and trust are believed

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 Alibaba’s sites have currently reached over 65 millions of registered users, hosted over millions of merchants and businesses globally. In 2005, its revenue

How does Alibaba group create corporate advantage? (Why are the businesses under one roof?) Is this corporate advantage sustainable? Is the current degree of competition amongst the business units appropriate? Do you think Jack Ma should encourage more cooperation? If so how? The Alibaba group has thrived in the Chinese e-commerce sector from its inception in 1998. They currently account for over 70% of online shopping in China and delivered annual revenues of $636 million in the 12month period

range, creative, and innovation. Jack Ma is the most successful Chinese Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Alibaba Group that has lots of subsidiary corporations and it is a successful group with a wide range of business scopes such Alibaba.com, Taobao.com, Tmall.com, Alipay.com, Juhasuan.com, AliExpress and etc. Ma is a leader who has an entrepreneurship. According to Shane (2003), entrepreneurship is an activity that involves exploring, estimate and discovery of opportunities to build

million active buyers. 1.3 Products/Services Alibaba group though started with business to business sales services later expanded its business into several online services through many web portals. Following are the services and web portals: 1. Alibaba.com – world’s largest B2B trading platform for

To start with, China, which scores 80 on IDX, ranks higher than Canada by 41 points. This highlights the fact that the society views inequalities among people as a normal thing and the subordinate-superior relationship tends to be polarized which leaves no space for defense against power abuse. Rigid hierarchy with formal authority influence individuals, and they believe in the capacity to lead and control of their own leaders. It is a society in which people are expected to stay at exactly where

ALIBABA Group Holding Brief History. Alibaba cooperation is a global wide Internet company founded by Jack Ma, Chinese name Ma Yun.Although Alibaba was founded in 1999, the story of how the company came to be actually dates back to 1995, when Jack Ma was on a trip to the U.S. and first became exposed to the Internet. As the story goes, he tried searching for the word "beer" on Yahoo but the search results did not turn up a single Chinese option. In fact, he could hardly find anything

Part 1 Give examples based on the specific Graduate Attributes that applies to the prominent personality of choice. Jack Ma is no doubt an extremely successful entrepreneur in the world of the entrepreneur and his journey has never been a bed of roses. As the Chinese saying goes “one minute on stage required whole ten years of practice down the stage” which in other words mean that the public may have seen the Brightside of the successful entrepreneurs, however, they will never know what

Introduction At the mercy of the development of the society, the development of the enterprise is more and more quickly. Meanwhile, the competitiveness among enterprises becomes larger than before. Why some companies can world-famous? What is entrepreneurship and why it is relevant to start-ups and established firms is my topic. I will use some famous company's examples to illustrate this topic. Definition of entrepreneurship Bushnell said. "Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today, the true entrepreneur

A number of factors contributed to Ma’s success. It may be useful to start with some of the key business principles he has vocalized and to refer to his background from there. His first principle relates to his own personal responsibility for the consequences associated with his business decisions. He has noted somewhat dramatically that if anyone has to go to jail as a result of following his direction, he should be the first to go. He also stated during his IPO in New York that if shareholders