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Consumer Valuation of Modularly Upgradeable Products

Ülkü, Sezer; Dimofte, Claudiu V.; Schmidt, Glen M. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 9, pp. 1761-1776

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

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Choice of Product Architecture, Product Quality, and Intra-Firm Coordination: Theory and Evidence Choice of Product Architecture, Product Quality, and Intra-Firm Coordination: Theo...

Morita, Hodaka; Nakajima, Kentaro; Tsuru, Tsuyoshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2012

Coordination within organizations has been recognized as an issue of central importance in the organizational economics literature, where the degree of interdependence between individuals’ actions is taken as given. In reality, however, the degree of interdependence is affected by the choice...

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ORGANISING FOR MODULARITY IN DYNAMIC MARKETS

PASCHE, MAXIMILIAN HANS; PERSSON, MAGNUS - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 16 (2012) 02, pp. 1250010-1

Facing constantly increasing product variety and changing customer demands, many companies have adopted a product modularisation strategy to increase strategic flexibility. Despite the dominant view that product modularisation directly increases strategic flexibility, it is argued here that the...

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Designing products for adaptability : insights from four industrial cases

Engel, Avner; Browning, Tyson R.; Reich, Yoram - In: Decision sciences : DS 48 (2017) 5, pp. 875-917

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The importance of possessing knowledge on black-box components : the case of smartphone OEMs

Cammarano, Antonello; Varriale, Vincenzo; Michelino, … - In: Journal of engineering and technology management : JET-M 67 (2023), pp. 1-15

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Organizing the Electronic Century

Langlois, Richard N. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007

This paper's title is an echo of Alfred Chandler's (2001) chronicle of the electronics industry, Inventing the Electronic Century. The paper attempts (A) a general reinterpretation of the pattern of technological advance in (American) electronics over the twentieth century and (B) a somewhat...

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Modularity and the Organization of International Production

Assche, Ari Van - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

In recent decades, complex manufacturing sectors such as electronics have transformed from an industry dominated by vertically integrated firms that source locally to an industry dominated by horizontally specialized firms that source globally. To account for this, we build an two-country...

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The Power of Integrality: Linkages between Product Architecture, Innovation, and Industry Structure

Fixson, Sebastian K.; Park, Jin-Kyu - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of … - 2007

firm Â€Ó through decreasing its product modularity Â€Ó turned its formerly competitive industry into a near-monopoly. Using … this case study we explore how existing theories on modularity explain the observed phenomenon, and show that most consider …

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Beyond product architecture: Division of labour and competence accumulation in complex product development

Becker, Markus C.; Zirpoli, Francesco - Dipartimento di Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2011

This paper considers the trade-off between leveraging external sources of innovation by outsourcing design and engineering activities and the ability to develop internal product development competences. The trade-off arises because the division of labor within and across firms' boundaries has a...

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Modularity and Interface Management: The case of Schindler Elevators

Mikkola, Juliana Hsuan - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …

Modularity refers to the scheme by which interfaces shared among components in agiven product architecture are … practice but also from a theoretical perspective. It is argued that the degree of modularity inherent in a given product … analyzing dynamics and the degree of modularity of a given product architecture by taking into account the following variables …

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