The Apple business model: Crowdsourcing mobile applications

Accounting Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 280-289

  Bergvall Kåreborn, Birgitta ^a   Howcroft, Debra ^a,b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apple business model; Crowdsourcing; Global production network; IT workforce; Mobile applications development and distribution; Platform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886315268     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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