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The following topics are dealt with: mbusiness models; mobile applications adoption; mobile advertising; mbusiness virtual communities; social networking; user behavior; user modeling; mobile learning; mobile payment systems; mapplications evaluation; mbusiness privacy; mbusiness trust; and mbusiness legislation.
The mobile ecosystem is constantly changing. The roles of each actor are uncertain and the question how each actor cooperates with each other is of interest of researchers both in academia and industry. In this paper we examine the mobile ecosystem from a business perspective. We used five mobile companies as case studies, which were investigated through interviews and questionnaire surveys. The companies...
Mobile business is expected to create a large spectrum of business opportunities. There are many studies analyzing the contribution of IT to firm performance and whether IT is capable of creating value. One process-level model of IT business value, defined as the contribution of IT to firm performance, focuses on how IT impacts critical business activities within the firm's value system (in the context...
In this paper, the focus is on finding an answer to the question why Mobile R&D prototypes are not being implemented. To find an explanation, we formulated propositions, moving from a macro-economic view on innovation, via innovation strategies to explanations that focus on the design of the artefact and the supporting business models. We concluded that, in the design process, the focus is on...
This study aims to explain the factors determining multiple subscriptions in the Swedish mobile phone market. A generalized Poisson model of count data from a national survey in Sweden finds that business subscriptions and house-hold size are the main predictors of the multiple mobile phone subscriptions, along with individual demographic characteristics such as, age, gender and type of occupation...
The study argues that a shift in the distribution paradigm in place has deep strategic implications, with specific reference to the resources, competencies and capabilities firms leverage to achieve competitive advantage. Analyzing the upfront issue related to the rise of the Mobile Application Store model as a substitute to the original Mobile Portal model from the Mobile Network Operator perspective,...
In knowledge and technology intensive industries such as the telecommunications industry, “practices” tend to be a mixture of knowledge and technology. Research however has been largely treating these two entities separately, addressing one while black boxing the other. This paper in reviewing how knowledge and technology have been categorized shows that the distinction between the two entities is...
Using the example of Amazon's Kindle 2 launch, this exploratory case study research investigates an emerging mobile business model in the eBook market that closely connects an innovative device with access to content. Reflecting on the business model and innovation literature, the paper points to the potential of an emerging mobile business model that relies on radical innovations to change industry...
Mobile application development is a field that has gone through rapid change during the past two decades. Although, in the past, the development and control of mobile devices was performed by phone manufacturers and network carriers, and development was done ‘in house’, the evolution of mobile device capabilities has expanded the potential for mobile application developers. This evolution has created...
This paper describes the platformisation of the mobile services domain, which in recent years has become a successful strategy for some hardware manufacturers and software companies. While pursuing diverging platform strategies and business models, they have succeeded in creating a demand for mobile software and content with end-users. Mobile network operators have lagged behind in this area and are...
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