The company is involved in logistics, retail and wholesale, local consumer businesses, cloud services including network virtualization services, large scale computing, security and big data analytics. They also partake in innovation initiatives and digital media and entertainment.
Their headquarters is located in China. They also have offices located in several countries around the world including Singapore, India, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). Over the past decade, Alibaba has seen exponential revenue growth.
Understanding Jack Ma’s (co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group) leadership behaviours and Alibaba’s organizational culture enabled us to appreciate how the group managed complex and intertwined issues during his tenure. Now that the baton has been passed to succeeding Chairman and Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang, the world’s eyes have turned to Zhang to witness how he leverages on Alibaba’s current position and sustains its business operations and rapid growth.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited: Why and how does leadership matter to a company’s growth, success and future prospects?
Kumaran Rajaram
Product #:AB22009
Supplier:The Asian Business Case Centre, NTU
Discipline:Organizational Behaviour/Leadership
Setting:China, Singapore, India, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US, 2022
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