Title: A roadmap for research in mobile business

Authors: Konstantinos G. Fouskas, George M. Giaglis, Panos E. Kourouthanassis, Stamatis Karnouskos, Andreas Pitsillides, Marinos Stylianou

Addresses: ELTRUN Wireless Research Centre, Athens University of Economics and Business, 47a Evelpidon and 33 Lefkados Street, 11362, Athens, Greece. ' ELTRUN Wireless Research Centre, Athens University of Economics and Business, 47a Evelpidon and 33 Lefkados Street, 11362, Athens, Greece. ' ELTRUN Wireless Research Centre, Athens University of Economics and Business, 47a Evelpidon and 33 Lefkados Street, 11362, Athens, Greece. ' Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Research Institute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin, Germany. ' eCommerce Lab, Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Street, P.O. Box. 20537, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus. ' eCommerce Lab, Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Street, P.O. Box. 20537, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus

Abstract: Mobile business research has arguably grown to become one of the most topical and complex eBusiness research areas in recent years. As a result, researchers face a plethora of interdisciplinary research challenges. Understanding the range of these challenges and confronting them requires coordinated research efforts, backed up by a holistic guiding approach. This paper aims at contributing to the future of mobile business research by proposing a roadmap to systematise and guide future research efforts, providing a methodical outlook to open research issues across all dimensions defining mobile business and prioritises future research in each dimension in the form of short-, medium-, and long-term research challenges.

Keywords: mobile business; m-business; wireless business; mobile applications; mobile services; m-services; research agenda; roadmap; mobile communications; wireless communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2005.007023

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2005 Vol.3 No.4, pp.350 - 373

Published online: 04 May 2005 *

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