Outsourcing creative work: A study of mobile application development

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bergvall Kåreborn, Birgitta ^a   Howcroft, Debra ^b   Chincholle, Didier ^c  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Andoid; Apple; Developers; Google; Iphone; Mobile applications development

Indexed keywords

ANDOID; APPLE; DEVELOPERS; GOOGLE; IPHONE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SMARTPHONES;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84870963625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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