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This paper discusses Amazon.com in terms of its historic and recent financial and market performance. The paper explains that Amazon.com has been identified as finally recording an operating profit as well as a net profit. Additionally, while Amazon.com has greatly expanded its online products and services, it has as of yet not diluted its brand image. Finally, Amazon.com continues to leverage technology to deliver an industry leading customer service strategy and solution.

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"Amazon.com's primary product line is of course books. However, beginning in the late 1990s Amazon began selling music CDs and miscellaneous other products. Since its 2001 restructuring Amazon completely reoriented itself from a specialty retailer of books to a full-line online shopping portal selling a host of consumer products including toys, apparel, and electronics (Epstein, 2004, p.85). A key difference in its strategic format post 2001 compared to pre-2001 is that Amazon moved from controlling and managing product inventories to largely redirecting them."

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The paper selects an Internet site - Amazon.com - that engages in economic activities and behaviours. The paper reveals the author's findings vis-a-vis this site as it pertains to interactive communications, social relations, and cultural and historical contexts of the activities/behaviours taking place. In the end, the writer argues that Amazon.com is distinguished by a very collegial and fraternal transactional and information-gathering culture wherein individuals work with one another to exchange information on sellers and products; the culture of the site is remarkably democratic and open. Thus, it can be perceived that Amazon is an online gathering place that successfully brings together like-minded individuals.

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"The following paper will select an internet site - Amazon.com - that engages in economic activities and behaviours. The paper will reveal the author's findings vis-a-vis this site as it pertains to interactive communications, social relations, and cultural and historical contexts of the activities/behaviours taking place. In the end, I argue that Amazon.com is distinguished by a very collegial and fraternal transactional and information-gathering culture wherein individuals work with one another to exchange information on sellers and products; the..."

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This paper discusses Amazon.com in terms of its historical founding, its continued operations and its recent financial performance. Particular attention is paid to its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his strategic restructuring and refocusing of the company in 2001 that led to its first annual profit in 2004. The paper explains that currently, Amazon.com has moved from being a speciality retailer of primarily books and CDs, to being a full-line consumer products online retailer.

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"Amazon.com was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Seattle, Washington as a way to sell books in an online environment and to establish a community of book lovers (Hargrove, 2001). Bezos is still the company's current CEO. By 1996 Amazon.com was selling more than $15 in books online and in 1997 Amazon.com went public (Greco, 2004). While expanding rapidly, in the next four years throughout the tech bubble expansion, Amazon.com went further and further into debt. In 1999 Amazon.com reached a major milestone in terms of revenue reaching the $1 billion mark, making it one of the fastest companies to reach that revenue amount in history. Following the start of the dot.com meltdown in 2000, Amazon's shares began to fall in price and in 2001 Amazon reported a $1.4 billion loss."

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This paper discusses the two cases of Amazon.com and of BMW Films, which is a marketing division of BMW. The paper discusses the focus of Amazon's firm, which is followed by a general discussion of customer demand in Europe and the EDN for the European market. The paper then considers BMW's continued use of the BMW Films concept in relation to its target markets and segments thereof, while recommendations are made for future advertising strategies.

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"The question of whether Amazon should concentrate on its customers, the firm, or both is somewhat disingenuous because the firm and its customers are really just two ways of saying the same thing. If Amazon had no customers it would cease to exist and if the customers did not have the opportunity to avail themselves of Amazon's services they would lose a valuable consumer service option. Amazon's management correctly understands this unique relationship because it instituted the Six Sigma quality operations program as a way to refine its operations and particularly the basic Six Sigma tenet of DMAIC (Amazon 5). Six Sigma is a process reengineering practice with the ultimate goal of reaching no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities to produce a defect."

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This paper examines financial detail, the organizational structure and mission statement of Amazon.com.. The author points out Amazon.com's strengths and weaknesses. The paper evaluates the company's opportunities for future success or failure.

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'This paper discusses the organizational elements of Amazon.com, which entails a detailed review of the Company's background, past and present, along with a detailed presentation relative to the business culture of Amazon.com. An organization's base rests on management's philosophy, values, vision and goals. This in turn drives the organizational culture which is composed of the formal organization, informal organization, and the social environment. The culture determines the type of leadership, communication, and group dynamics within the organization. The workers perceive this as the quality of work life which directs their degree of motivation. The final outcome is performance, individual satisfaction, and personal growth and development. All these elements combine to build the model or framework that the organization operates from within."

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This paper compares and contrasts Amazon.com with Target by using a SWOT analysis of Amazon.com's Internet based business with Target's bricks and mortar-based business. The paper also looks at the impact of e-commerce on businesses today.

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"Although the dot-com boom was forecast to cause a revolution in retailing with many analysts expecting a significant shift to so-called e-tailing, the new business model of having only an Internet presence without a physical brick and mortar presence has not come to dominate the American commercial market. Instead traditional retailers have added e-commerce to their business plans but have not abandoned their physical stores in most cases. Amazon com is a clear exception to this."

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This paper examines the Amazon website and focuses on its scalability issue. The paper proposes several options for addressing this issue. The author also examines how Amazon uses technology to differentiate itself from its competitors. The paper highlights technological problems of the company.

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"An Evaluation of technological systems in its business. Most people think of Amazon as an online bookseller. Amazon does of course sell books a lot of them in fact. But what Jeff Bezos, CEO, of Amazon says about the company reveals a much ..."

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This paper presents a brief examination of the productivity problems facing amazon.com and its inability to post a profit. It includes an examination of the company's strategic alliances and the business background of Amazon.

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Amazon com is one of the Internet wonder companies that survived the shakeout in the dot-com industry that occurred in the late ..."

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This paper analyzes the mission statements of Amazon.com. The author presents a matrix analysis. The paper suggests a general strategy.

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"This report presents the results of an analysis of the Amazon.com case. The case provides data relevant to Amazon.com at the beginning of calendar year . Financial and operational data provided in the case apply to ... and ... . The results of the case analysis are presented in several separated but related topical sections The topical sections are as follows: Existing mission objectives and strategies, Suggested vision and mission statements, EFE Matrix external factors evaluation ..."

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This paper discusses the role of the Amazon River system to the population living around it.

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