Research Article
The Borders of Mobile Handset Ecosystems: Is Coopetition Inevitable?
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03569-2_5, author={Ga\`{\i}l Gueguen and Thierry Isckia}, title={The Borders of Mobile Handset Ecosystems: Is Coopetition Inevitable?}, proceedings={Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications - Workshops. Mobilware 2009 Workshops, Berlin, Germany, April 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBILWARE WORKSHOPS}, year={2012}, month={11}, keywords={Ecosystems Mobile OS co-opetition keystone organization}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03569-2_5} }- Gaël Gueguen
Thierry Isckia
Year: 2012
The Borders of Mobile Handset Ecosystems: Is Coopetition Inevitable?
MOBILWARE WORKSHOPS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03569-2_5
Abstract
Today, the mobile phone industry witnesses important changes, shifting from a value chain to a burgeoning business ecosystem. This paper deals with the relationships that are at the very core of mobile OS ecosystems for IMTs (smartphones and PDA): Microsoft-OS, Symbian-OS, Palm-OS and RIM-OS over the period 1998-2006. Our study confirms that an ecosystem’s borders are unclear. More than half of our sample’ relationships are shared by at least two different ecosystems. The ecosystems we studied do not differ in terms of exclusive relationship which suggests that coopetitive strategies are particularly relevant in mobile platforms war.
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