Alibaba
Companiese-commerce
China's dominant e-commerce group; the literature mixes insider accounts with outside histories of Jack Ma's rise.
8 books
Start here
- Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma BuiltDuncan Clark, 2016
- Alibaba's WorldPorter Erisman, 2015
- Smart Business: What Alibaba's Success Reveals about the Future of StrategyMing Zeng, 2018
Books 8
Duncan Clark · 2016 · The standard history, by an adviser present from the early days.
Kai-Fu Lee · 2018 · The Chinese platform ecosystem Alibaba competes inside.
Porter Erisman · 2015 · Insider account: an early Western executive on the eBay fight.
Edward Tse · 2015 · How Chinese private champions including Alibaba actually built scale.
Ming Zeng · 2018 · Insider account: Alibaba's chief strategy officer on platform design.
Lulu Yilun Chen · 2022 · Alibaba's principal rival; the two firms are best read together.
T4 Alibaba: The Inside Story Behind Jack Ma and the Creation of the World's Biggest Online Marketplace
Liu Shiying, Martha Avery · 2009 · Early Chinese-sourced account, admiring and lightly sourced.
Winston Ma · 2016 · Payments and mobile commerce structure behind Alipay and Taobao.