Alibaba : the house that Jack Ma built / Duncan Clark.
By: Clark, Duncan [author.].
Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]Edition: First edition.Description: xvi, 287 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062413406 (hardcover).Subject(s): Ma, Yun, 1964- | Ma, Yun, 1964- | Alibaba (Firm) | Alibaba (Firm) | Electronic commerce -- China | Internet marketing -- China | Internet auctions -- China | Electronic commerce | Internet auctions | Internet marketing | Digitalisierung | Electronic Commerce | Wirtschaftswachstum | Unternehmen | China | ChinaGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HF5548.325.C6 C48 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009138 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287).
The iron triangle -- Jack magic -- From student to teacher -- Hope and coming to America -- China is coming on -- Bubble and birth -- Backers : Goldman and SoftBank -- Burst and back to China -- Born again : Taobao and the humiliation of eBay -- Yahoo's billion-dollar bet -- Growing pains -- Icon or Icarus?
Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on exclusive interviews to explore how the company and Jack Ma have become icons and leading employers in China's booming private sector.