Unpacking the Black Box of Modularity: Technologies, Products and Organizations

By Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe. 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Mechanical Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Value Creation in Innovation Ecosystems: How the Structure of Technological Interdependence Affects Firm Performance in New Technology Generations (2010, background): “For example, Brusoni and Prencipe (2001) note that while modularity allows for the rise of specialist component suppliers, it also poses greater organizational and knowledge requirements on the focal firms in their role as system integrators.”
Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis (2012, unknown): “A variety of studies have examined the link between a product’s architecture and the characteristics of the organization that develops it (Conway, 1968; Henderson and Clark, 1990; Brusoni and Prencipe, 2001; Sosa et al, 2004; Cataldo et al, 2006).”
Can we trust Big Data? Applying philosophy of science to software (2016, background): “It was later adopted by emerging ﬁelds in the study of complex systems (Ethiraj and Levinthal, 2004) and business related issues concerning organizational structures and product design (Brusoni and Prencipe, 2001).”
Learning in Projects, Remembering in Networks? (2004, background): “Modules epitomize the proverbial ‘black box’, a component that produces a particular output from a certain input while the internal functioning remains largely irrelevant (see, for example, Brusoni and Prencipe, 2001).”
The multiple boundaries of the firm (2003, background): “Brusoni and Prencipe (2001) contend that the increasing division of labour engendered by modularity demands tight cross-company interaction and conscious efforts at coordination at both the knowledge and organizational levels.”
Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation (2013, result): “We can also link this literature to other research on sharing modules across firms (Staudenmayer, Tripsas and Tucci, 2005), limits of modularity as a design strategy (Brusoni and Prencipe, 2001), and industry architecture or structure (Jacobides, Knudsen and Augier, 2006; Pisano and Teece, 2007).”
Modularity: Implications for Imitation, Innovation, and Sustained Advantage (2006, background): “However, as Brusoni and Prencipe (2001) note, efficient task boundaries may differ from the knowledge boundaries that sustain a firm.”
Introduction - Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age (2018, methodology): “Previous research on system integration (Brusoni and Prencipe 2001, Ceci and Prencipe 2008, Davies et al. 2007) also has challenged the mirroring hypothesis.”
Unpacking the innovation ecosystem construct: Evolution, gaps and trends (2016, background): “Those ﬁ ve are: Brusoni and Prencipe (2001), investigating the correlations between product, organizational and knowledge modularity (organization studies); Eisenmann et al. (2006), studying network effects of two-sided markets based on platforms (open innovation and product platform); Dyer and…”
Limits to Modularity: Reflections on Recent Developments in Chip Design (2005, background): “As explained above, this is especially the case for new, ‘‘interdependent’’ design architectures—their development requires flagships that possess the systems integration knowledge to evaluate how best to advance across the myriad possible combinations (Brusoni and Prencipe, 2001; Brusoni, 2003).”
Where do transactions come from? Modularity, transactions, and the boundaries of firms (2007, background): “Recent studies by Brusoni et al. (2001), Brusoni and Prencipe (2001), Sako (2004), Staudenmayer et al.”
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions (2016, methodology): “This simple view has been challenged by a stream of work on system integration initiated by Brusoni et al. (2001) and Brusoni and Prencipe (2001).”