Alibaba Business AnalysisLuoweihua XieUniversity of BridgeportAlibaba Business AnalysisAlibaba Group IntroductionAlibaba Group is a Business to Business e-commerce company founded in 1999 by Jack Ma. Ma was an English teacher from Hangzhou, in China. With over 40 million users and 5 million storefronts, Alibaba has become one of the most useful online businesses. Alibaba Group's mission is to connect Chinese manufacturers to other companies around the world. It mainly operates in two different markets: first, it connects Chinese importers and exporters with the global market; Second, offer the platform to domestic suppliers and buyers in China. (Liquori, T., 2009) Alibaba like other e-commerce companies such as eBay and Amazon does not have specific products, but offers many different items and brands. These products include almost everything from chemicals to transportation. Alibaba has 6 major subsidiaries, including Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) - a Chinese online retail marketplace, T-mall (www.tmall.com) - China's leading online shopping mall for quality and brand, Alibaba (www.alibaba.com)- A leading global wholesale platform for small businesses, AliExpress (www.aliexpress.com)- Popular international electronic marketplace for consumers, Alibaba Cloud Computing (www.aliyun.com) – An advanced cloud data-centric information services platform, Alipay (www.alipay.com) - A third-party online payment platform. (Alibaba, 2014)Alibaba has offices in more than 50 cities in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe. Since September 2009, Alibaba.com has gained 45.276 million registered users, which is equivalent to an increase of 27% over the previous year. Of th...... half of the paper ......rs.Conclusions and future studiesReferenceChua, R., Morris, M., & Ingram, P. (2009). Guanxi versus networking: Distinctive configurations of affect- and cognition-based trust in elegance networks versus American managers. Journal of International Business Studies, forthcoming.Lin, Z., Li, J. (2005). The online auction market in China: a comparison between Taobao and eBay. ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (113): 123-129. Liquori, T., Benjamin, D., Barbu, A. (2009). Comparison between eBay.com and Alibab.com.Oberholzer-Gee, F., Wulf, J. (2009). Alibaba's Taobao(A).Unlocking China's Internet Market, China International Business, June 2008.Alibaba. (2014). www.alibaba.com. Obvious weakness of Web.Alibaba Netsun offers low member price split in the B2B market. (2008). Web.Exhibit 1 Ningbo Green Textile website on Alibaba