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Published in: Service Business 1/2014

01-03-2014 | Empirical Article

Mobile application service networks: Apple’s App Store

Authors: Jieun Kim, Yongtae Park, Chulhyun Kim, Hakyeon Lee

Published in: Service Business | Issue 1/2014

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Abstract

In fast-moving and complex App Store, there is a need for exploring the content of mobile application services themselves. Thus, this research empirically analyzes the relationships among mobile application services to identify their structures and positions through a text-mining-based network analysis. Associations among categories and applications are visualized as macro-level category network and micro-level app network; network indexes gauge the structural properties and positional characteristics of each network. Mobile service categories are compared according to their values and grouped according to network properties using cluster analysis, offering implications for the sectoral characteristics of mobile services in App Store.
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Metadata
Title
Mobile application service networks: Apple’s App Store
Authors
Jieun Kim
Yongtae Park
Chulhyun Kim
Hakyeon Lee
Publication date
01-03-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Service Business / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 1862-8516
Electronic ISSN: 1862-8508
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-013-0184-z

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