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Arbetsmaterial till
case 1 A
mazon.com
A
mazon Organ
izational S
tructure
Amazon organizati
onal structure can
be clas
sified as h
ierarchical. Seni
or manage
ment team include
two CE
Os, three
Senior Vice Presidents and one Worldwide Controller, who are responsible for var
ious vital aspects of the
business
reporting directly
to Amazon CEO
Jeff Bez
os. There ar
e seven s
egments such
as information
technolog
y, human
resources and l
egal operati
ons and heads
of seg
ments also report t
o Amazon
CEO.
Hierarchical stru
cture at A
mazon has
devel
oped due
to the i
m
mense size of the
business. The larg
est intern
et
retailer in the
world by r
evenue emplo
ys 560,000 pe
ople w
orldwide
[1]
and it ha
s more th
an 300 milli
on cust
omers
globally.
[2]
Amaz
on organiza
tional structure int
egrates man
y small tea
ms that de
al with various a
spects of t
he
business. Amaz
on founder
and
CEO Jeff Bez
os is cred
ited with
the intr
oduction of
‘two piz
za rule
”. According
to this
rule, meetings
should be
held in
teams small
enough
that could
be all f
ed with o
nly two pizz
as.
The figure belo
w illustrates
Amazon organiz
ational stru
cture:
Amazon Organi
zational Str
ucture
It is important to n
ote that despite its larg
e size,
unlike many
other compani
es with hierarchical
organizational structure
, A
mazon remains h
ighly
flexible to adapt
to frequen
t changes in
the
external marketplace. Moreover, the online
retail giant lead
s
changes
in exte
rnal business
environment, it
has caused d
isruptive
innovation in e-
commerce
and currently i
t is
about to cau
se a di
sruptive innova
tion in gl
obal
logistics industry. This
is m
ainly due to
visionary
and efficient l
eadership b
y Amazon f
ounder and
CEO Jeff Bezos.
It can be for
ecasted that
with the a
cquisition of
Whole Foods
for USD13.
7 billion i
n 2017, Amaz
on organiz
ational
structure is g
oing to
change in
the forese
eable futur
e.
Moreover, due
to the
co
mpany’s adherenc
e to bu
siness
diversifica
tion strateg
y in an
aggressive
manner, its
organiza
tional structure
will remain d
ynamic, being su
bjected
to
certain changes i
n a regu
lar manner.
[1]
Annual Repo
rt (2017) A
mazon Inc.
[2]
How Man
y Products
Does A
mazon Sell W
orldwide
–
Janu
ary 2018 (2018)
Scrape Hero,
A
vailable
at:
https://www.scrap
ehero.com/how-m
any-products
-amazon-sell-w
orldwide-janu
ary-2018/
Source:
Posted on
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seachgate,
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gust 1, 2018
by
Jo
hn Dud
ovskiy
