Size and growth dynamics of online stores: A case of China’s Taobao.com

Gao, Baojun; Chan, Wai Kin; Chi, Lei; Deng, Xuefei

doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2016.04.005

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“…As they are more nimble than larger companies, which makes it easier for them to adapt to change, they tend to grow faster than larger ones. This finding is therefore consistent with Evans (1987), Dunne and Hughes (1994), Audretsch et al (1999), Goddard et al (2002), Oliveira and Fortunato (2006), Shehzad et al (2013), and Gao et al (2016), as well as Distante et al (2018); however our finding contradicts Gibrat's Law that a company's growth is independent of its size.…”

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“…In addition, Distante et al (2018 disagreed with Gibrat's Law. By using quantile regression analysis, they revealed that smaller firms grow faster than larger ones, supporting evidence found by both Audretsch et al (1999) in the case of Italian manufacturing companies and Gao et al (2016) in the case of online stores in a Chinese online marketplace named Taobao.com. As there is conflicting evidence regarding the growth-size relationship of Gibrat's Law, the first testable hypothesis is as follows: H1: A company's size affects its growth.…”

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“…However, the findings of these studies have been inconsistent worldwide. Many researchers have found support for Gibrat's Law (e.g., Geroski et al,2003;Liñares-Zegarra, & Wilson, 2018), while others have rejected Gibrat's Law by proving that a company's growth is significantly related to its size (e.g., Evans, 1987;Dunne & Hughes, 1994;Audretsch et al 1999;Shehzad et al, 2013;Gao et al, 2016). Therefore, this study also aims to examine the validity of Gibrat's Law to determine whether a company's growth affects its size.…”

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationship among the size, growth, and profitability of listed companies. The study sample comprised listed companies in the ASEAN-4 countries-Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand-over the period 1972-2014. The K-medoids algorithm was employed in a cluster analysis, and the generalized method of moments (GMM) was applied to examine the dynamic relationship. The empirical results reveal that smaller companies tend to have higher growth than larger companies. Moreover, the results indicate that persistence of growth and persistence of profitability do not exist. There is also evidence that profitability affects companies' growth, but companies' growth does not affect profitability.

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“…The field of activity of the companies included in the study could have a significant impact on the results when analyzing the companies' growth due to certain issues. In this respect, there are studies which refer especially to the service sector [16,17], to the manufacturing sector [18], or to the non-manufacturing sector [1,19,20], to online trade [21], or to the field of companies listed on the stock market [22]. There are relatively few studies which have been conducted on sustainability in tourism and which, at the same time, attempt to evaluate sustainable growth using quantitative accounting-financial indicators [23][24][25][26].…”

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Assessing the Sustainable Room for Growth for a Particular Romanian Tourism Area of Business: The Case of Accommodation Businesses

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In recent years, the Romanian accommodation business sector has recorded a dramatic increase in accommodation units, but even under these circumstances it is below half of the average registered by the European Union. The study aims to evaluate whether there is still room for sustainable growth in this regard. For this purpose, the accounting–financial indicators have been assessed for an annual average of 3447 companies reporting every year to the European Union for 18 years, between 1999 and 2016, for all the accommodation units in Romania and the European Union. For data processing and to assess sustainable growth, we have used simple regression and resorted to the distance method and the geometric mean method to analyze competitiveness. The findings show a likelihood of sustainable growth of 20.6% in the development of Romanian accommodation businesses, in the light of the aspects analyzed, correlated to the EU average. Some managerial decision-making suggestions are provided at the end of the paper for accommodation businesses’ sustainable growth, related to accounting–financial issues. For Romanian businesses, sustainable growth is promoted by the low level of staff costs and, to a lesser extent, by the investments made per employed person. For the corporate governance of these companies to recover growth space in terms of sustainability, managerial decisions should be taken to increase sales, profitability, production value and added value.

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“…A survey-based approach using a structured questionnaire was applied to collect data from the consumers who have the recent experience of purchasing online from Taobao, the largest e-retailing website of China (Gao, Chan, Chi, & Deng, 2016). In the first section, consumers were asked to respond to questions related to their online shopping experience.…”

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Antecedents of Consumer-Based Electronic Retail Brand Equity: An Integrated Model

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The purpose of this study is to test and compare multiple conceptual models that examine the relationships among electronic retail (e-retail) service quality, trust, satisfaction, and consumer-based e-retail brand equity. A quantitative survey was conducted among Chinese online shoppers. The survey used established scales to measure constructs in the proposed models. Structural equation modelling (SEM) procedure was applied to test alternate models. The results confirmed that web design and customer service positively influence satisfaction, while fulfilment and security dimension of e-retail quality influence consumer trust. Both trust and satisfaction were found to be significant influencers of consumer-based e-retail brand equity. E-retailers can use this model to measure, monitor, and improve their consumer's perceptions towards their brand. This study contributes to Muhammad Mohsin Butt et al. 70 the existing literature that deals with antecedents of online consumer-based retail brand equity. It adds value by proposing and testing multiple models of online consumer-based brand equity which is rare in e-brand equity research.

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Size and growth dynamics of online stores: A case of China’s Taobao.com

Cited by 19 publications

References 70 publications

The Dynamic Linkage among the Size, Growth and Profitability of Listed Companies in the ASEAN-4 Countries

The Dynamic Linkage among the Size, Growth and Profitability of Listed Companies in the ASEAN-4 Countries

Assessing the Sustainable Room for Growth for a Particular Romanian Tourism Area of Business: The Case of Accommodation Businesses

Antecedents of Consumer-Based Electronic Retail Brand Equity: An Integrated Model

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