E-business evolution: an analysis of mobile applications’ business models

Prior scholars have deeply defined the sources of value, typologies, and value capture mechanisms of website businesses. The advent of new e-businesses, i.e. mobile applications, requires investigation into which are the successful variations of e-businesses that have been selected and retained for surviving the new digital era, and how they have been formed. A mixed qualitative-quantitative business model analysis of 2250 mobile applications of...