Synthesizing professional and market logics: A study of independent iOS app entrepreneurs

International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 444-464

  Qiu, Yixin ^a   Gopal, Anandasivam ^a   Hann, Il Horn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutional logic; Qualitative research; Third party app developers

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES; INSTITUTIONAL LOGIC; MOBILE SOFTWARES; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; PROFESSIONAL GROUPS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE STUDY; THIRD-PARTY APP DEVELOPERS;

COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84884601544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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