Disruptive Business Models

Running Head: MANAGEMENT 0
DISRUPTIVE BUSINESS
MODELS

MANAGEMENT 1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Amazon Business Model............................................................................................................3
Disruptive business models emerging in industry.....................................................................3
Important policies or practices of Amazon................................................................................5
Recommendations......................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................7

MANAGEMENT 2
Introduction
The e-commerce market is continuously growing as number of consumers prefer to
purchase goods online increases for the sort of convenience. In 2017, retail e-commerce sales
globally amounted to 2.3 trillion US dollars and e-retail revenues are expected to grow to
4.88 trillion US dollars in 2021 (statista.com, 2019). It also embraced the advantage of web-
based storefronts to come across the desires of huge customers.
One of the major e-commerce giants is Amazon who is continuously growing with its
particular business models. Amazon is a giant retailer for both used and new goods. As
Amazon offers services by which people can sell and buy products at the same time and the
company has so 310 million active customers. Considering the report of 2018, Amazon has
6,47, 500 number of employees and the company has earned $232 billion in revenue in the
year 2018 (statista.com, 2019). The profit is more than tripled in 2018 and this shows the
strength of its business model.
Source: (statista.com, 2019)