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Mobile application service networks: Apple’s App Store

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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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This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2011-0012759).

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-742, Republic of Korea

    Jieun Kim & Yongtae Park

  2. Department of Technology and Systems Management, Induk University, 14 Choansan-gil, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 139-749, Republic of Korea

    Chulhyun Kim

  3. The Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 139-743, Republic of Korea

    Hakyeon Lee

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Kim, J., Park, Y., Kim, C. et al. Mobile application service networks: Apple’s App Store. Serv Bus 8, 1–27 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-013-0184-z

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