Mobile business and the smart city: Developing a business model framework to include public design parameters for mobile city services

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 121-135

  Walravens, Nils ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business models; Mobile applications; Mobile services; Public administration; Public governance; Public value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872854719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762012000300011     Document Type: Article

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