* This case won the Economics, Politics and Business Environment category at The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2016

This case explores the microeconomic determinants of Amazon's success as well as the market forces that can potentially undermine the firm's development in the future. So far, Amazon's ever-changing business model has allowed the company to continuously adapt to new market dynamics and new business realities. Whether this will be the case in the future depends on Amazon's ability to adapt to new competitive challenges and to clear current and future regulatory hurdles.