Although <i>product modularity</i> is often advocated as a design strategy in the operations management literature …

Modularity in product design and flexible supply chains is increasingly common in buyer-supplier relationships …. Although the benefits of supply chain flexibility and component modularity for end-product manufacturers are accepted, little … is known about their impact on suppliers. We advance the literature on modularity by exploring how three aspects of a …

Modularity has been heralded as an organizational and technical architecture that enhances incremental and modular … implications of modular designs for competitive advantage, one must consider the dual impact of modularity on innovation and … imitation jointly. In an attempt to do so, we set up three alternative structures that vary in the extent of modularity and …

development process. We define two observable properties of an architecture: (1) modularity and (2) option value. Developers can … often make informed judgments about modularity and option value from early, partially implemented code releases. We show … because modularity and option value create opportunities for the exchange of valuable work among developers, opportunities …

Modularity. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA), we implement a valuation approach using a numerical procedure based on the least …

organization literature. Recent writings have tended to offer modularity as at least a partial solution to this design problem …