Logic pluralism in mobile platform ecosystems: A study of indie app developers on the iOS App Store

Information Systems Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 225-249

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

^a Health Integrity LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounded theory; Independent software developers; Institutional logics; IOS App Store; Platform ecosystems; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMMERCE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IOS (OPERATING SYSTEM); LOGIC SYNTHESIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

APP STORES; GROUNDED THEORY; INSTITUTIONAL LOGIC; PLATFORM ECOSYSTEMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 85021162196     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2016.0664     Document Type: Article

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