Evolving an open ecosystem: The rise and fall of the Symbian platform

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 30, Issue , 2013, Pages 27-67

  West, Joel ^a   Wood, David ^a  

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Author keywords

Complementary assets; Ecosystems; Mobile phones; Platform control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886557774     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0742-3322(2013)0000030005     Document Type: Article

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