The Success of Amazon.com

The Success of Amazon.com <Tab/>Although most dot.coms experienced the repercussions of falling technology and Internet markets in the late 1990s and ultimately failed, Amazon.com, a company that operates on the "audacious combination of ambition and idealism" (Hansell 2002), has managed to stay alive by implementing innovative strategies that have fairly ignored the Company's fluctuating and often unstable financials while hedging its success on meeting the demands of consumers …

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