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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Alibaba"”.
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Management innovations at outstanding information technology companies and implications for China
… analyze five companies: Google, Zappos, Netflix, Alibaba, and W.L Gore for their recent successes in management innovation. Our goal is to distill a core set of principles we can learn from to recommend to venture entrepreneurs and managers looking to operate in China.
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Towards Energy-Efficient Cloud Datacentres: A Unified Framework for Generative and Multi-Scale Time Series Forecasting
… an empirical analysis of large-scale Google and Alibaba workload traces is conducted, revealing key temporal and statistical characteristics that influence forecasting performance. Building on these insights, the thesis introduces TR-GAN, a Transformer-Rectification-based Generative Adversarial …
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eMicro: Real-Time Multi-Hop Access Control for Microservices with eBPF
… and production cloud traces from Uber, Alibaba, and ByteDance, covering 12 million request workflows and thousands of services, demonstrate the scalability of eMicro. eMicro performs policy checks in 1 s, stores 50 million policies in only 100 MB, and reduces propagation overhead by 90% …
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Cloud Service Strategies and Competition in the Chinese Market Among Major Technology Companies
… of world, a similar story unfolded in China. Alibaba launched its cloud services in 2008. This thesis first analyzes why these three giant technology companies all chose to enter the cloud service market and how their strategies differ. Based on their capability, different companies have …
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The "11.11" phenomenon in China
… role in the Chinese consumer market. In 2009, Alibaba first created the "11.11" shopping festival. In 2015, the total GMV of "11.11" exceeded US$14.3 billion, which was even more than the total transaction volume of the "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" in the US. Then, what is this "11.11" …
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Living on E-Commerce: The Politics and Ethics of E-Trading in a Chinese City
… by large e-platform giants, such as the Alibaba Group. The expansion of this new economy has given individual Chinese e-traders new opportunities to generate wealth and cultural capital, achieve upward social mobility and construct an enterprising subjectivity. Yet, the domination of …
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Living on E-Commerce: The Politics and Ethics of E-Trading in a Chinese City
… by large e-platform giants, such as the Alibaba Group. The expansion of this new economy has given individual Chinese e-traders new opportunities to generate wealth and cultural capital, achieve upward social mobility and construct an enterprising subjectivity. Yet, the domination of …
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Performance modeling of human-machine interfaces using machine learning
… operational advantage. E-commerce giants like Alibaba and Amazon are known to have smart warehouses staffed by both machines and human operators. The robotics systems specialize in transporting and maneuvering heavy shelves of goods to and from operators. Operators are left to higher-level …
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996, moyu, and involution: tech work in the age of platform monopoly
… companies such as Google, Facebook, Tencent, and Alibaba have come to symbolize a new era marked by dynamism, entrepreneurialism, and innovation. This has led us to believe that these internet companies play an outsized role in the creation of economic value today, which given their profits, may …
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Essays on Consumer Information Acquisition in Marketing Channels
… retailer, such as Amazon in the United States or Alibaba in China. I develop a sequential search model to provide insights into the impact of prominence in an intra-brand setting. My research sheds light on (1) how a prominent retailer’s relative prices hinge on a threshold level of prominence, …
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Understanding platform business models in the telecommunication industry
… powerful and fastest-growing companies such as Alibaba, Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, etc. Platform businesses bring together producers and users in efficient exchanges of value. These models are known for leveraging network effects, which means the more participants on the platform, the greater the …
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An examination of privacy in the socio-technological context of Big Data and the socio-cultural context of China
… to pursue more private space as a lifestyle. Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent are globally top-ranking Chinese Internet companies with huge numbers of users, tractions and revenues, whose businesses depend heavily on consumers’ personal data. As a response to the increase of consumer data and the …
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Investigating the Impact of User Experience in Turkey's Online Bookstore: Application of Flow Theory
In the 1990s, Amazon, Alibaba and eBay, pioneers in digital retailing, integrated technological innovations into their online shopping applications, to increase customers’ satisfaction. These companies have paved the way for the sector's development. Today, online shopping is more user-friendly …
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The industrial relations of China’s internet industry: Politics, technology, and labour activism
… Digitech (pseudonym); a separate case study of Alibaba also is included. Drawing on qualitative methodologies – including 61 interviews, workplace observations, policy documentation and analysis – this thesis investigates the work experience of China’s technology workers, particularly with …
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Digital Darwinism: Temporal Myopia and the Transformation of Institutional Logics
… most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world's largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening’. Goodwin (2018, p. 10)<br/><br/>The ubiquitous offerings of such digital pioneer …