E-Commerce Research Proposal - Case Study
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E-Commerce Research Proposal - Case Study
Added on 2021-06-17
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E-COMMERCE RESEARCH PROPOSAL A CASE STUDY OF ALIBABA.COM 1
TABLEOFCONTENTContent pageCover page......................................................................................................1Table of content................................................................................................2Executive summary...........................................................................................3Introduction.....................................................................................................4Literature review...............................................................................................6Overview of the study methodology........................................................................9Data collection methods.....................................................................................10Sampling procedure..........................................................................................11Results and discussion.......................................................................................12Limitations....................................................................................................14Conclusion....................................................................................................15Recommendation.............................................................................................16References.....................................................................................................172
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis study was carried out in order to establish the future of the business world that is the progress of online business as a result of the development and improvement of technology whichhas affected many areas including the business sector. Due to technology, there was introduction of e-commerce where people get to sell and buy goods online and to be precise with the support of internet which has provided the platform for such activities to take place. The research took a case study design where a single entity that is Alibaba.com was taken into consideration to come up with the findings and the conclusion. Population sample was chosen using stratified random sampling whereby the population was first divided into groups such as the consumers, business managers, and technology experts among others. Questionnaires and live interviews were the major tools and methods used to collect data. Results indicated that as much as online business has become popular among people, it still serves as the secondary option when one wants to purchase goods. Majority still buy from real stores but the number of people buying from online shops is continuously increasing. It was concluded that if the trend goes on as it is at now, there are chances that online purchase of goods is going to beat the real stores shops, but until then, online sellers have to keep on improving the technology to attract more clients and come up withstronger and better marketing strategies. 3
Introduction Over the past few years, the technology has been improved in that, living in the world in these current years seem much easier than the past. Technology has brought about the internet which has many changes created in the business sector as well as the communication sector whereby the world has been made appear like a global village (Keikha & Sadeq, 2015). Due to the presence of the internet, people use it not only for fun and communication but also to make money. Businesses are being run through the internet. The emergence of e-commerce is as a result of technology improvement which gave birth to this common platform all over the world which is the internet (진진진& Jaewook Lim, 2012) .The likes of alibaba.com carry out its activities purely through online means right from procurement process, marketing, orders and supply of goods. This company is based in china, was founded in the year 1999 by Yun ma. It is currently the leading online business in booth china and among the best e-commerce in the world. From the look of things, online business is getting much popularity and preference compared to the manual business ("connecting social media to ecommerce using microblogging and artficial neural network", 2017). For online business, goods are ordered and paid for online and then the concerned companies make the effort of delivering them to the desired destination. Reliable resources show some supermarkets and retail shops that were once popular now lack customers and some of them have even been closed down while online businesses are flourishingday in day out. Take an example of alibaba.com; no one ever expected it to be where it is at the moment. Could the reason be that consumers now prefer online purchase of goods rather than physically going to the shops to fetch goods? Therefore, this research seeks to find out how the internet as part of the technology has affected business in the world and how the world is adapting the change in technology to shift their ways of doing things ("eCommerce", 2013)the 4
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