, and the emergence and diffusion of new design strategies for both products and organisations, namely modularity. The … emergence of modularity as a product and organisational design strategy is clearly connected to recent trends in organisational … design. Modularity would allow the decoupling of complex artifacts into simpler, self-contained modules. Each module would …

implementation of such innovations. From the literature on modularity, we borrow the idea that the evolutionary dynamics of artifacts …

This paper discusses the issue of modularity from a problem-solving perspective. Modularity is in fact a decomposition … of problem decomposition, this paper studies the trade-offs of modularity: on the one hand finer modules increase the …

This paper builds upon on-going research into the organisational implications of 'modularity'. Advocates of modularity …

-set of LAN equipment consisting of more than 1,000 hubs and switches marketed between 1990 and 1999. Modularity emerged as a … previously relied on modular hub architectures. Our interpretation is as follows: modularity offers advantages of speed when …