TY - BOOK AU - ERISMAN,PORTER TI - ALIBABA'S WORLD:HOW A REMARKABLE CHINESE COMPANY IS CHANGING THE FACE OF GLOBAL BUSINESS SN - 978-1-4472-9064-3 U1 - 658.872/ERI PY - 2015/// CY - LONDON PB - MACMILLAN KW - MANAGEMENT,E-COMMERCE,BUSINESS,MARKETING,E- COMMERCE COMPANY,CHINA N1 - GEN.MGT/RACK N2 - Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building a customer base more than twice the size of Amazon's, and handling the bulk of e-commerce transactions in China. Author Porter Erisman, one of Alibaba's first Western employees and its head of international marketing from 2000 to 2008, shows how Jack Ma, a Chinese schoolteacher who twice failed his college entrance exams, rose from obscurity to found Alibaba and lead it from struggling startup to the world's most dominant e-commerce player ER -