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Modularity and innovation in complex systems
Ethiraj, Sendil K.; Levinthal, Daniel - 2003
organizations literature. Recent writings have tended to offer modularity as, at least, a partial solution to this design problem …. Two unifying themes characterize the extant literature on modularity. The first addresses the contingencies under which … modularity wherein the focus is on the advantages that modular design structures have over their integrated counterparts. However …
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Performance analysis of the closed loop supply chain
Asif, Farazee MA; Bianchi, Carmine; Rashid, Amir; … - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 2 (2012), pp. 1-21
Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...
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Offshoring along the production chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Jens Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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Internal marketisation: between redefinition and erosion of 'social ties that bine' at company level
Becke, Guido - 2010
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Offshoring Along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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Innovationsschulung für arbeitsuchende Fachkräfte: Schlussfolgerungen aus einem Pilotprojekt des AMS zur Entwicklung eines Maßnahmenpaketes
Löffler, Roland; Weiß, Silvia; Klimmer, Susanne - 2011
Beim Wiedereinstieg arbeitslos gewordener Personen mit einer abgeschlossenen Berufsausbildung stellt die fehlende Aktualität der Qualifikationen (neben anderen Gründen, so z.B. physische oder psychische Erkrankungen oder Versorgungspflichten) eines der Haupthemmnisse für eine erfolgreiche...
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A General Solution Framework for Component-Commonality Problems
Boysen, Nils; Scholl, Armin - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 1, pp. 86-106
Component commonality - the use of the same version of a component across multiple products - is being increasingly considered as a promising way to offer high external variety while retaining low internal variety in operations. However, increasing commonality has both positive and negative cost...
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Modularisierung in der Medienproduktion: Drei Fallbeispiele im Vergleich
Grau, Christoph; Wolf, Christian M.; Kramer, Florian; … - 2007
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Modularization, individualization and the first-copy-cost-effect: Shedding new light on the production and distribution of media content
Anding, Markus; Hess, Thomas - 2004
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