Application of common knowledge operator and disruptive thinking perspective in case of mobile operating system market

• Authors: Aurimas Gircys
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Paper is a case study of mobile operating systems market, where mobile operating system makers share a distributed knowledge of mobile operating system basics and different levels of information about consumer expectations. According to the basic logics, it is reasonable to expect that if it is commonly known that a choice A is better than a choice B, any agent i will prefer the choice instead of an inferior one. In case the mobile operating system makers some chose a completely different outcome which is rather based on disruptive thinking instead of common knowledge.

Keywords

EN

disruptive thinking; strategic thinking; game theory; disruptive technology; common knowledge operator; mobile operating systems; android; google; iphone; distributed environment

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 21-26

Dates

published

2011-01-16

Contributors

author

Aurimas Gircys

• Faculty of Politics and Management, University of Mykolas Romeris, Lithuania

• Prague Development Center, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2011.05