Modularity in technology and organization

By Richard N. Langlois. 2002

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Institutional Work as Logics Shift: The Case of Intel’s Transformation to Platform Leader (2013, background): “These modular interfaces partitioned the scope of economic activity and provided a structure that both constrained and enabled the behaviour of field members, affecting the loci of competition and innovation (Jacobides, Knudsen & Augier, 2006; Langlois, 2002).”
Yes, Managers Should Be Paid Like Bureaucrats (2005, neutral): “In the common pool approach, as well as in the team production approach, corporate activities are characterized by a high degree of complex interdependencies (Grandori, 2000; Langlois, 2002; Thompson, 1967).”
Where do transactions come from? Modularity, transactions, and the boundaries of firms (2007, background): “Langlois (2002, 2003) was the exception, and thus was in the vanguard of those who used modularity to explain changing industry structure.”
The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (2003, background): “Although modularity in a deep sense lies behind all decentralization (Langlois, 2002), I do not want to be understood as saying that the Chandlerian corporation is giving way to pure modular systems and anonymous arm’s-length markets.”
Modularity: Implications for Imitation, Innovation, and Sustained Advantage (2006, background): “The choices firms make on this front are particularly intriguing, since they shed light on the efficiency with which organizations can collaborate on design, development, and production (Langlois, 2002).”
Incomplete by Design and Designing for Incompleteness (2008, background): “a concept possessing clear evolutionary advantages for both natural and artificial systems (see also Langlois 2002 ).”
Competitive dynamics and economic learning: an extended resource-based view (2003, background): “48See Langlois (2002) for a recent exposition of this perspective.”
Hybrid Modes of Organization. Alliances, Joint Ventures, Networks, and Other 'Strange' Animals (2013, background): “…while increasing the transparency of transactions; (c) implementation of devices that allow conversion and translation of pr tocols and interfaces at low cost; (d) the development of ‘intuitive’ interfaces (Langlois, 2002; Clemons & Row, 1992; Paché & Paraponaris, 1993; Anderson & Gatignon, 2005).”
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions (2016, background): “Langlois (2002) then made the case that firms are non-modular structures with ambiguous internal boundaries that facilitate “communication of rich information” (p. 34).”
Italian industrial districts as cognitive systems: Are they still reproducible? (2011, background): “…and explicit knowledge and that may be characterized by different degrees of knowledge encapsulation, contingent on their architecture (i.e. how product functions are mapped onto product components and the nature – standard, non-standard, open, closed – of component interfaces) (Langlois 2002).”
Complementarities Between Organizational IT Architecture and Governance Structure (2010, background): “Modularity can be a technical and organizational characteristic; the two facets correspond to technical and organizational modularity (see Langlois 2002).”
Economic Foundations of Strategy (2004, background): “…impact on organization design) has captured attention in strategic management (Baldwin and Clark, 2000; Bowman and Kogut, 1995; Garud and Kumaraswamy, 1995; Garud, Kumaraswamy, and Langlois, 2003; Langlois, 2002; Sanchez and Mahoney, 1996, 2001; Schilling, 2002; Worren, Moore and Cardona, 2002).”