Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
Place to Space: Migrating to Ebusiness Models
Place to Space: Migrating to Ebusiness Models
Towards a classification framework for mobile location services
Mobile commerce
Ad-me: Wireless Advertising Adapted to the User Location, Device and Emotions
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 9 - Volume 9
The business model concept: theoretical underpinnings and empirical illustrations
European Journal of Information Systems
Location disclosure to social relations: why, when, & what people want to share
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A research framework for analysing eBusiness models
European Journal of Information Systems
Applying user-centered design to mobile application development
Communications of the ACM - Designing for the mobile device
Assessing Legal Challenges on the Mobile Internet
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Balancing customer and network value in business models for mobile services
International Journal of Mobile Communications
A critical evaluation of location based services and their potential
Journal of Location Based Services
Mobile Service Innovation and Business Models
Mobile Service Innovation and Business Models
Next generation mobile service environment and evolution of context aware services
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
A context management framework for supporting context-aware distributed applications
IEEE Communications Magazine
Supporting context-aware mobile applications: an infrastructure approach
IEEE Communications Magazine
The ubiquitous service-oriented design of 3G/4G mobile commerce
International Journal of Mobile Communications
A vertical view of social structure on location-utilized mobile games
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
Mobile application market: A developer's perspective
Telematics and Informatics
Access to premium content on mobile television platforms: The case of mobile sports
Telematics and Informatics
Privacy-friendly business models for location-based mobile
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Threats and opportunities for new audiovisual cultural heritage archive services: The Dutch case
Telematics and Informatics
Constructs for successful implementation of m-business: an Australian case study
International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Mapping the tourism mobile applications: what, how and where
Proceedings of the 6th Balkan Conference in Informatics
Context-aware intelligent service system for coal mine industry
Computers in Industry
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Technologies of 3G and beyond open up new opportunities to develop and commercialize context-aware services that utilize information like user location and social context. Although initial expectations were high, the adoption and diffusion of context-aware services have thus far been limited. Existing literature points to failing business models to explain part of the disappointing uptake. However, most authors focus on the factors that explain failing business models rather than providing practical design issues to improve business model viability. This paper fills this gap by specifying generic mobile business model design issues for the domain of context-aware services. As such, we provide a well-grounded, holistic overview of design issues that are the most critical in developing viable business models for context-aware services, based on interviews with eighteen esteemed practitioners and academics in the mobile services domain, at CEO and Professor level. Our findings indicate key challenges in the service domain (i.e. defining value adding elements, specifying target groups and generating trust of consumers in the service), the technology domain (i.e. integrating emerging technology platforms and safeguarding privacy and security), the organizational domain (i.e. division of existing and new roles in complex value networks, openness of the value network towards new service providers and governing the activities in the value network) and the financial domain (i.e. pricing; dividing costs and revenues and combining multiple revenue models). Our research has scientific implications, because it applies generic mobile business model theory to the context-aware services domain. In addition, we provide practical clues to practitioners with regard to the design issues on which they should focus while developing more viable context-aware business models.