Amazon and its Amazon and its competitors. What is the importance of the external environment?
Discipline: Business Studies
Type of Paper: Other
Academic Level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)
Paper Format: APA
Question
Description
This is not a paper...I do not need a title page. It is a discussion question that needs to answer the following in detail
Respond to the following:
Can any firm beat Amazon in the marketplace? If not, why not? If so, how can they best do so? How formidable a competitor is Google for Amazon? Please explain. Consider:
What are Amazon's major strengths?
Does it have any weaknesses? Please explain.
Is Jet.com a potential concern for Amazon? Why or why not?
Given the importance of understanding the external environment, why do some firms fail to do so? Provide examples of firms that did not understand their external environment.
What were the implications of the firm's failure to understand that environment?
