Following are profiles of Amazon and Barnes &Noble in year 2002 — WWW was in its early stage.

Market Value Number of employees Revenue Annual net income

$18.3 billion 7,600 $3.93 billion -$149.13 million Click here for more on this paper……. Click here to have a similar A+ quality paper done for you by one of our writers within the set deadline at a discounted

1.7 billion 50,000 $5.27 billion $63.97 million

Barnes&Noble was founded in 1917 and Amazon was founded in 1995. The 7-years old Amazon had less revenue and negative net income, but its market value (= the stock price * the number of stock shares in market) is 10 times higher than Barnes & Noble’s. Many people at that time thought that Amazon controlled some rare resources that are critical and hard to imitate by its competitors. Click here for more on this paper……. Click here to have a similar A+ quality paper done for you by one of our writers within the set deadline at a discounted

In this homework you need to write a short essay in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format. Please give the essay a filename based on your name in the format of Lastname_Firstname.doc or Lastname_Firstname.pdf. Please use single line space format with a font size of 11. The length should be about 1 page (from 0.75 page to 1.5 page). The essay should have the following two sections 1) Find the most recent (year 2013 or 2014) data for each company and create a table as the above 2002 table. 2) Click here for more on this paper……. Click here to have a similar A+ quality paper done for you by one of our writers within the set deadline at a discounted

Using resource-based view of competitive advantage concept, list three types of resources that help Amazon to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. For each resource, briefly explain its values and why it is hard to imitate. Please submit your answer (the Word or PDF file named after your last name and first name) to Beachboard. To verify your submission, please download and open the file to make sure that it is the right one. Click here for more on this paper……. Click here to have a similar A+ quality paper done for you by one of our writers within the set deadline at a discounted