Mobile application service networks: Apple's App Store

Service Business

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-27

  Kim, Jieun ^a   Park, Yongtae ^a   Kim, Chulhyun ^b   Lee, Hakyeon ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Induk University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

App Store; Cluster analysis; Mobile application; Mobile services; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895907392     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-013-0184-z     Document Type: Article

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