Distributed tuning of boundary resources: The case of Apple's iOS service system

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 217-243

  Eaton, Ben ^a   Elaluf Calderwood, Silvia ^b   Sørensen, Carsten ^b   Yoo, Youngjin ^c  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary resource dynamics; Digital infrastructure; Ecosystem; IOS; Mobile platform; Service system innovation; Sociomateriality; Tuning

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FRUITS; TUNING;

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES; IOS; MOBILE PLATFORM; RESOURCE DYNAMICS; SERVICE SYSTEMS; SOCIO MATERIALITIES;

IOS (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84939781260     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2015/39.1.10     Document Type: Article

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