Alibaba's discourse for the digital Silk Road: the electronic World Trade Platform and ‘inclusive globalization’

Seoane, Maximiliano Vila

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“…Trade, another critical dimension, has also been revolutionized [51]. Digital platforms have democratized access to global markets, enabling even micro-entrepreneurs to engage in cross-border trade, thus fostering inclusivity in the global economy [52].…”

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Digitalization as a Factor of Production in China and the Impact on Total Factor Productivity (TFP)

Li,

Liu,

et al. 2024

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In the digital transformation era, digitalization integrates deeply into production, bolstering output efficiency and economic value. Through stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), this research positions digitalization as an input in the production function, dissecting its elasticity impact on capital, labor, and output. The effect of digitalization on total factor productivity change (TFPC) is explained by comparing TFPC with and without digitalization. Findings reveal that digitalization’s integration into economic growth displays a U-shaped trajectory, with initial productivity setbacks transitioning to long-term benefits as industries adapt. The periodic complementarity and substitution between digitalization and labor, along with a weak substitution relationship with capital, illustrate that, as a production factor, digitalization dynamically interacts with other factors, both complementing and substituting them. This dynamic interplay highlights the intricate role that digitalization plays within the production function. Furthermore, digitalization has played a crucial role in China’s TFP growth, which also highlights the lack of other technological progress. Meanwhile, the pace of digital transformation presents scalability challenges, evident in the fluctuating scale efficiency change (SEC). Policymakers are advised to address these early stage challenges through supportive measures, ensuring smoother digital transitions. Concurrently, industries should embrace this non-linear transformation, emphasizing adaptability to maximize digitalization’s long-term advantages.

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Section: The Socioeconomic Dividends Of Digitalizationmentioning

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Digitalization as a Factor of Production in China and the Impact on Total Factor Productivity (TFP)

Li,

Liu,

et al. 2024

Systems

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“…Most prominently, big US tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (in short: “GAFAM”) hold a central position of power within the networks that shape the application layer of the Internet in many parts of the world. At the moment the only real competition on a global level comes from Chinese companies like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent—which also have been assigned an acronym, “BAT” (Jolly, 2021; Seoane, 2019).…”

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Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order

Pohle

Voelsen

2022

Policy & Internet

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In recent years, various governments have been trying to subordinate the Internet to the system of the Westphalian state order. This article seeks to add a new layer to the analysis of this conflict over state sovereignty and the global digital order. It draws on network theory as an alternative analytical lens to study the reconfiguration of power relations that define the Internet as a technical, social and economic network, and its governance. We review key conflicts and developments that shaped the Internet's history, from the Internet exceptionalists' visions in the 1990s to states' recent pursuits of digital sovereignty and trace how states, as well as private companies, seek to fundamentally reconfigure the dominant logic of the Internet and its sub‐networks to expand and institutionalise their power position. We thus highlight a deeper layer of conflict: the current struggles over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet are not only influenced by the conflict between liberal and authoritarian visions of the Internet; they are also the result of continuous tensions between processes of centralisation and decentralisation of the Internet's technical foundations and its governance. As an effect of these dynamics, we currently witness a pluralisation of power while, at the same time, new points of centralised control emerge.

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“…In early November 2018, it had a market capitalization of approximately $ 380 billion. These impressive figures explain why Alibaba's management claims the company is an "economy" with half a billion customers (Seoane, 2020). Using the platform economy model, Alibaba's business relies on the strength of the network effect.…”

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“…Like other online platforms, Alibaba uses a zero marginal cost business model (Rifkin, 2015;Lozić, 2019a). Alibaba's goal was to "facilitate business" anywhere by using Internet technology to enhance the competitive advantage of SMEs, opening the door to Chinese SMEs and consumers through the creation of widely used e-commerce platforms (Seoane, 2020). Moreover, Alibaba has evolved "not only as a Chinese e-commerce platform but also as a global electronic marketplace (GEM) platform", which started with the idea to help and support millions of Chinese SME suppliers to reach out to global customers online (Yun et al, 2020).…”

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The Impact of Covid-19 on the Alibaba Platform

Lozić

Čiković

2022

entrenova

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Purpose – this paper aims to analyse the business efficiency of the Alibaba platform at the beginning and during the COVID-19 crisis. Methodology/Design - The research is based on the official financial reports of the platform as well as on the reports of other specialized agencies that monitor the platform industry. The study focuses on an analysis of the financial indicators of the business. It compares the financial indicators with an analysis of the data on the trend of the user community on the platform. The results - the study's findings did not find a major impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the overall business results of the Alibaba platform. The survey results confirmed changes in operating profit and net profit trends as a result of changes in the structure of operating revenues. Conclusion - Total revenues are growing at a slower pace as a result of the changes in business policy and changes in revenue structures than as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Alibaba's discourse for the digital Silk Road: the electronic World Trade Platform and ‘inclusive globalization’

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Digitalization as a Factor of Production in China and the Impact on Total Factor Productivity (TFP)

Digitalization as a Factor of Production in China and the Impact on Total Factor Productivity (TFP)

Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order

The Impact of Covid-19 on the Alibaba Platform

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