| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
Some articles originally published 1962-2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations / R. Garud, A. Kumaraswamy and R. N. Langlois -- Pt. I. Overview -- 1. The Architecture of Complexity / H. A. Simon -- Commentary / M. Augier and H. A. Simon -- 2. Technological and Organizational Designs for Realizing Economics of Substitution / R. Garud and A. Kumaraswamy -- Commentary / R. Garud and A. Kumaraswamy -- 3. Networks and Innovation in a Modular System: Lessons from the Microcomputer and Stereo Component Industries / R. N. Langlois and P. L. Robertson -- Commentary / R. N. Langlois and P. L. Robertson -- Pt. II. Modularity and Architectures -- 4. The Role of Product Architecture in the Manufacturing Firm / K. Ulrich -- Commentary / K. Ulrich -- 5. Managing in an Age of Modularity / C. Y. Baldwin and K. B. Clark -- Commentary / C. Y. Baldwin and K. B. Clark -- 6. Toward a General Modular Systems Theory and its Application to Interfirm Product Modularity / M. A. Schilling -- Commentary / M. A. Schilling -- Pt. III. Networks and Standards -- 7. The Economics of Networks / N. Economides -- Commentary / N. Economides -- 8. The Art of Standards Wars / C. Shapiro and H. R. Varian -- Commentary / C. Shapiro and H. R. Varian -- Pt. IV. Field-level and Organizational Dynamics -- 9. Dynamics of Organizational Communities and Technological Bandwagons: An Empirical Investigation of Community Evolution in the Microprocessor Market / J. Wade -- Commentary / J. Wade -- 10. Dominant Designs, Technology Cycles, and Organizational Outcomes / M. L. Tushman and J. P. Murmann -- Commentary / G. Westerman and M. L. Tushman -- 11. Modularity, Flexibility, and Knowledge Management in Product and Organization Design / R. Sanchez and J. T. Mahoney -- Commentary / R. Sanchez. |
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Organization.
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Management.
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Modularity (Psychology)
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Gestion. |
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Modularité (Psychologie) |
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management. |
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Organization |
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Management |
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Modularity (Psychology) |
| Added Author |
Garud, Raghu.
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Kumaraswamy, Arun.
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Langlois, Richard N.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Managing in the modular age. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003 0631233156 0631233164 (DLC) 2002004409 (OCoLC)49383947 |
| ISBN |
1405141948 (electronic bk.) |
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9781405141949 (electronic bk.) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
R4-334315 |
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