This paper focuses on a specific strategy that developers of mobile applications may use to stimulate demand: the release of updates. We start with a stylised theoretical analysis to describe the developer's decision to release an update. Its predictions are then tested by using an unbalanced...

We propose a model of Bertrand competition in which consumers choose firms based on prices and qualities. Service quality depends on congestion, which is a function of capacity and output. We first present theoretical properties of the model. Next, we calibrate the model to the wireless industry...

Since Apple and Google launched their mobile app stores in 2008, the market for mobile apps has experienced rapid growth. Given the existence of multiple app platforms, fundamental questions in the app industry are how app developers choose which app platform to enter and which market designs...

Extensive prior literature has studied how young organizations are impacted by and often benefit from embeddedness in key industry networks. Indeed, some research advises that entrepreneurs “don't go it alone” (Baum, Calabrese, and Silverman, 2000). This literature has also highlighted a...

The word Ideal System refers to a system which is optimal or finest in terms of all its characteristics and any existing system can be improved or converted into the Ideal system by comparing existing system to Ideal system and by doing research and innovation. Mobile banking business will...

2.5 billion adults, just over half of world's adult population, do not use formal financial services to save or borrow. 2.2 billion of these unserved adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Of the 1.2 billion adults who use formal financial services in Africa, Asia, and...