The mobile service industry: Strategic challenges and future business models

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 509-531

  Gressgård, Leif Jarle ^a   Stensaker, Inger ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Business models; High technology strategies; Mobile scenarios; Social identity; Technological development

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

BUSINESS MODELS; HIGH-TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES; MOBILE SCENARIOS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646065965     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2006.009257     Document Type: Article

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