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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 3 transactions free zones
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
would be prohibitive. Such areas can become transaction free zones.The purpose of this chapter is to build a theory of …) commons organizations which govern through consensual rule-making and monitoring; and (3) collaborative communities with open …
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 6 the value structure of technologies, part 1 : mapping functional relationships
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
to human beings. Technology is the guide, organizations are the means, value is the goal.The purpose of this chapter is …Organizations are formed in a free economy because an individual or group perceives value in carrying out a technical … recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be …
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 2 transactions in a task network
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
truly understand the relationship between technology and organizations we must look “beneath” transactions at the full set …
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 4 the mirroring hypothesis : linkages inside and across transaction free zones
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
A technology is a specific way to achieve a material goal. It describes a feasible path—a recipe—by which a group of … origins. It then investigates the theory behind the hypothesis and identifies a set of “predictable exceptions” where the …
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 5 ecosystems and complementarities
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2020
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce two new building blocks to the theory of how technology shapes … organizations. The first is a new layer of organization structure: a business “ecosystem.” The second is the economic concept of … the value they can create acting separately. The modern theory of complementarity thus helps to explain when and why …
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Design rules, volume 2 : how technology shapes organizations: chapter 13 platform systems vs. step processes - the value of options and the power of modularity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2019
systems reward modularity, distributed governance, risk taking, and autonomous decision-making.Despite these differences …
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Design rules, volume 2 : how technology shapes organizations: chapter 15 the IBM PC
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2019
of how technology shapes organizations. In Chapter 7, I argued that sponsors of large technical systems (including …The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose … of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the theory …
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Investing in Innovation : A Policy Framework for Attaining Sustainable Prosperity in the United States
Lazonick, William - 2022
their own investment activities. When they work in a harmonious fashion, these three types of organizations—household units … of organizations in the triad: government agencies, implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082107
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Patterns of Technological Progress and Corporate Innovation
Waśniewski, Krzysztof - 2013
The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The present paper attempts to answer the following...
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Design rules, volume 2: how technology shapes organizations : chapter 16 capturing value by controlling bottlenecks in open platform systems
Baldwin, Carliss Y. - 2019
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the means by which firms capture value in open platform systems. I begin by arguing that the surplus value created by complementarities within a technical system will be split among the owners of the unique and essential components—the strategic...
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