TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Duncan TI - Alibaba: the house that Jack Ma built SN - 9780062413406 (Hardcover) AV - HF5548.325.C6 C53 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - Ma, Yun, KW - Alibaba (Firm) KW - fast KW - Electronic commerce KW - China KW - Internet marketing KW - Internet auctions KW - Digitalisierung KW - gnd KW - Electronic Commerce KW - Wirtschaftswachstum KW - Unternehmen N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Alibaba is an unusual name for a Chinese company. Its founder, Jack Ma, a former English teacher, is an unlikely corporate titan. Yet the house that Jack built is home to the largest virtual shopping mall in the world, soon to overtake Walmart in the amount of goods sold N2 - Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on exclusive interviews to explore how the company and Jack Ma have become icons and leading employers in China's booming private sector ER -