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Do firms innovate through integrated modular designs? Disentangling the effects of types of modularity on types of innovation
Todorova, Gergana; Durisin, Boris - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2009
Modularity scholars argue that modular architectures lead to higher strategic flexibility through mass customisation … and through both incremental and architectural innovation. There is little empirical evidence, however, on whether modular … through modularity of products, organizational processes, organizational structures, and knowledge. Using structural equation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694486
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Modeling Coordination in Organizations and Markets
Malone, Thomas W. - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 10, pp. 1317-1332
This paper describes a simple set of coordination structures that model certain kinds of information processing involved in organizations and markets. Four generic coordination structures are defined: product hierarchies, functional hierarchies, centralized markets, and decentralized markets....
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ВЛИЯНИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ НА СТРОЕНИЕ ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННОЙ СТРУКТУРЫ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЯ
ПОПОВА Л.Ф. - In: ВЕСТНИК САРАТОВСКОГО … (2012) 3, pp. 91-94
В статье представлен ситуационный подход к анализу организационной структуры предприятия. Целью данной работы является исследование природы технологий,...
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Wissensmanagement in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen. Systematische Gestaltung einer wissensorientierten Organisationsstruktur und -kultur (Knowledge Management in Small...
Staiger, Mark - Rainer Hampp Verlag
The growing demands on the availability competition-related knowledge is not only for large companies, but also for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) a challenge. Many SME try to bright this challenge through the use of new information and communication technologies. But this is not...
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The Nature and Design of Post-Industrial Organizations
Huber, George P. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 8, pp. 928-951
) innovation, and (3) information acquisition and distribution. In addition to its conclusions concerning the design features that …-making, innovation, and information acquisition and distribution to take on added importance in post-industrial organizations, and that …
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Modular exaptation: A missing link in the synthesis of artificial form
Andriani, Pierpaolo; Carignani, Giuseppe - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 9, pp. 1608-1620
innovation. Exaptation may enable an existing technology to (a) construct a new technological niche, (b) enter into a preexisting …
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Aeronautical manufacturer versus architect-integrator: a new industrial model for Airbus (In French)
KECHIDI, Med - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2008
This article analyzes the technical and organizational dynamics on which the strategies of the European aircraft manufacturer are founded. The point of view developed is that refocusing on architect-integrator activities, increasing modular decomposition of the process of building airplanes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005379190
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Limits to Modularity: Reflections on Recent Developments in Chip Design
Ernst, Dieter - In: Industry and Innovation 12 (2005) 3, pp. 303-335
innovation. However, a small, but growing revisionist literature contends that the enthusiasm for modularity has gone too far …Research on “modularity” has made an important contribution to the study of technical change and economic institutions …. It demonstrates that progress in the division of labor in design (technical modularity) has created new opportunities for …
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When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010
This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466006
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Of Hackers and Hairdressers: Modularity and the Organizational Economics of Open-source Collaboration
Langlois, Richard N.; Garzarelli, Giampaolo - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008
By employing modularity theory, we study the general phenomenon of open-source collaboration, which includes, e …
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