The power of modularity

By Carliss Y. Baldwin, K. Clark. 2000

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Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control (2010, background): “…that opening can also shape technical progress: the improvement of individual components; the creation of extensions, add-ons and upgrades; the elimination of bugs and errors; and quality and cost improvements (e.g., Baldwin and Clark 2000, Kuan 2002, Langlois 1992, von Burg 2001, von Hippel 2005).”
The digital platform: a research agenda (2018, methodology): “A digital platform incorporates various modules that extend the functionality of the software product (Sanchez and Mahoney, 1996; Baldwin and Clark, 2000).”
Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators (2008, unknown): “Apart from licensing, property rights assignment and other traditional contractual and legal instruments, platform technologies and design are themselves understood as a means of virtually imposing “laws” (Lessig 1999) and design “rules” (Baldwin and Clark 2000).”
The Dynamics of Open Strategy: From Adoption to Reversion (2017, unknown): “…often reduced and shared cost of development can lead to a greater number of experiments running in parallel, which can shorten development cycles (Baldwin and Clark, 2000), and because transparency is a hallmark of open projects (Whittington et al., 2011), results can be disseminated in a more…”
Defining changeability: Reconciling flexibility, adaptability, scalability, modifiability, and robustness for maintaining system lifecycle value (2008, background): “It has been suggested that one of the benefits of modularity is the ready ability to reuse old components, while freeing up possibilities for system variation that would not be available in an integral design [Lipson, Pollack, et al., 2001; Baldwin and Clark, 2000].”
Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search (2010, background): “Problem decomposability simply means that a suitable modularity of the problem space (Baldwin and Clark 2000) has been achieved, i.e. the interactions amongst the sub-problems have been identified and understood, but there may still be a high degree of uncertainty and difficulty in developing the…”
The Next Wave of Globalization: Relocating Service Provision to India (2007, background): “Through the standardization process, “pinch points” facilitating handoffs were established, and these facilitated the separation of the work process either geographically, organizationally, or both (Baldwin and Clark 2000; Gereffi et al. 2005; Jacobides and Winter 2005).”
Service Innovation: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective (2015, background): “…for the service platform to facilitate service exchanges that involve components within a functional design hierarchy (leading to variations of a core value proposition) or across multiple design hierarchies (leading to completely different value propositions) (Baldwin and Clark 2000; Clark 1985).”
Community, Joining, and Specialization in Open Source Software Innovation: A Case Study (2003, background): “The literature on commercial software development suggests that “modularization” (Baldwin and Clark, 2000) of the software code may increase a project’s transparency, lower barriers to contribute, and allow for specialization by enabling efficient use of knowledge (Khoshgoftaar et al., 2001; Meyer…”
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation (2010, methodology): “Most design-relevant knowledge and information does not need to cross module boundaries.”
Instructional-Design Theories and Models: Building a Common Knowledge Base. Volume III. (2009, methodology): “Baldwin and Clark (2000) refer to this as design modularization and provide an extended case study of how the functional design decomposition used in the design of the IBM 360 operating system revolutionized the design and economics of computers.”