Introduction to Mobile Value Services Minitrack

We are witnessing enormous growth and development in mobile technologies as well as applications and services in the business world. Due to this the deployment of mobile technologies and mobility has spread to most topics within systems sciences. At the same time our understanding of business models, platforms, eco-systems and value creation is not as advanced as necessary to contribute to sound dynamic modeling of the phenomena, deriving theoretical explanations or to provide guidance for these developments. The theoretical core of mobile value services needs strengthening. To overcome this lack of understanding, we have organized this minitrack on mobile value services to shed light on the role of mobile technologies in the development of contemporary phenomena in businesses and organizations. We accepted five papers to the minitrack and organized them into two sessions. The first session deals with models; a model of usage intention and business models. The second session deals with mobile phone addiction observed from different perspectives. The papers of each session are briefly summarized.