Garud / Kumaraswamy / Langlois Managing in the Modular Age

Architectures, Networks, and Organizations
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4194-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten, E-Book

This book brings together seminal articles by leading scholars oftechnological and organizational systems, exploring the impact of'modularity'. Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and puttogether differenct products and networks, or to 'mix and match'components in order to meet different user specifications. This isof key importance today where new systems such as the World WideWeb and many areas of the computer industry depend on it. Thevolume pulls together and defines an exciting new area of inquiry:into how our 'modular age' is reshaping the businesseco-system.
* * Includes contributions from leading scholars of technology andorganization
* Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put togetherdifferent products and systems, or to 'mix and match' components inorder to meet different user specifications.
* Consolidates and defines an area of inquiry that is becomingincreasingly important with the development of web-based and'network' industries.
* Sensitizes readers to the complexity of issues surrounding newmodular products and systems created by e-business
* Encourages readers to make connections among different levelsand disciplines.
* Initiates a debate around issues of modularity.
* Includes a commentary co-authored by the late Nobel LaureateHerbert A. Simon to whom the book is dedicated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garud, Raghu

Kumaraswamy, Arun

Langlois, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Managing in The Modular Age: Architectures,Networks and Organizations. (R. Garud, A. Kumaraswamy, R.Langlois).
Part I: Overview.
1. The Architecture of Complexity. (H. A. Simon).
Commentary. (M. Augier and H. A. Simon).
2. Technological and Organizational Designs to Achieve Economiesof Substitution. (R. Garud and A. Kumaraswamy).
Commentary.
3. Networks And Innovation In A Modular System: Lessons From TheMicrocomputer And Stereo Component Industries. (R. N. Langlois andP. L. Robertson).
Commentary.
Part II: Modularity And Architectures.
4. The Role of Product Architecture in the Manufacturing Firm.(K. Ulrich).
Commentary.
5. Managing in an Age of Modularity. (C. Y. Baldwin and K. B.Clark).
Commentary.
6. Towards a General Modular Systems Theory and Its Applicationto Interfirm Product Modularity. (M. A. Schilling).
Commentary.
Part III: Networks And Standards.
7. The Economics of Networks. (N. Economides).
Commentary.
8. The Art of Standards Wars. (C. Shapiro and H. R. Varian).
Commentary.
Part IV: Field-Level And Organizational Dynamics.
9. Dynamics of Organizational Communities and TechnologicalBandwagons: An Empirical Investigation of Community Evolution inthe Microprocessor Market. (J. Wade).
Commentary.
10. Dominant Designs, Technological Cycles and OrganizationalOutcomes. (M. L. Tushman and J. P. Murmann).
Commentary. (G. Westerman and M. L. Tushman).
11. Modularity, Flexibility and Knowledge Management in Productand Organizational Design. (R. Sanchez and J. T. Mahoney).
Commentary. (R. Sanchez).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Raghu Garud is Associate Professor of Management andOrganizational Behavior at Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NewYork University. Besides authoring many articles on modularity thathave been published in leading management journals, Raghu hasco-edited and co-authored several books, including PathDependence and Creation (2001), The Innovation Journey(1999), and Technological Innovation: Oversights andForesights (1997). He was Program Chair for the Technology andInnovation Management Division for the 2001 Academy of Managementmeetings.
Arun Kumaraswamy is Assistant Professor of Management atthe School of Business - Camden, Rutgers University. He haspublished several papers on modularity and standards in journalssuch as the Academy of Management Journal and theStrategic Management Journal.
Richard N. Langlois is Professor of Economics at theUniversity of Connecticut. He is the author of numerous articlesand books, including Firms, Markets, and Economic Change: ADynamic Theory of Business Institutions (1995). His history ofthe microcomputer industry won the Newcomen Award as the bestarticle in Business History Review in 1992.