Managing in the Modular Age ：Architectures, Networks, and Organizations

Publication subTitle ：Architectures, Networks, and Organizations

Author： Raghu Garud  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9781405141949

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780631233152

Subject： C93 Management

Language： ENG

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This book brings together seminal articles by leading scholars of technological and organizational systems, exploring the impact of 'modularity'. Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together differenct products and networks, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. This is of key importance today where new systems such as the World Wide Web and many areas of the computer industry depend on it. The volume pulls together and defines an exciting new area of inquiry: into how our 'modular age' is reshaping the business eco-system.


  • Includes contributions from leading scholars of technology and organization
  • Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together different products and systems, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications.
  • Consolidates and defines an area of inquiry that is becoming increasingly important with the development of web-based and 'network' industries.
  • Sensitizes readers to the complexity of issues surrounding new modular products and systems created by e-business
  • Encourages readers to make connections among different levels and disciplines.
  • Initiates a debate around issues of modularity.
  • Includes a commentary co-authored by the late Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon to whom the book is dedicated.

Chapter

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

pp.：  1 – 7

INTRODUCTION

pp.：  7 – 9

PART ONE OVERVIEW

pp.：  9 – 21

1 THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMPLEXITY

pp.：  21 – 23

2 TECHNOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS FOR REALIZING ECONOMIES OF SUBSTITUTION

pp.：  23 – 53

3 NETWORKS AND INNOVATION IN A MODULAR SYSTEM: LESSONS FROM THE MICROCOMPUTER AND STEREO COMPONENT INDU

pp.：  53 – 86

PART TWO MODULARITY AND ARCHITECTURES

pp.：  86 – 123

4 THE ROLE OF PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE IN THE MANUFACTURING FIRM

pp.：  123 – 125

5 MANAGING IN AN AGE OF MODULARITY

pp.：  125 – 157

6 TOWARD A GENERAL MODULAR SYSTEMS THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO INTERFIRM PRODUCT MODULARITY

pp.：  157 – 180

PART THREE NETWORKS AND STANDARDS

pp.：  180 – 223

7 THE ECONOMICS OF NETWORKS

pp.：  223 – 225

8 THE ART OF STANDARDS WARS

pp.：  225 – 255

PART FOUR FIELD-LEVEL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS

pp.：  255 – 281

9 DYNAMICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNITIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL BANDWAGONS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF COMMUNITY EVOLUTION IN T

pp.：  281 – 283

10 DOMINANT DESIGNS, TECHNOLOGY CYCLES, AND ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES

pp.：  283 – 324

11 MODULARITY, FLEXIBILITY, AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN PRODUCT AND ORGANIZATION DESIGN

pp.：  324 – 370

INDEX

pp.：  370 – 398

LastPages

pp.：  398 – 425

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