Neither Modularity nor Relational Contracting: Inter-Firm Collaboration in the New Economy

By C. Sabel, J. Zeitlin. Enterprise & Society, 2004

118 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. D. Ernst
2. AnnaLee Saxenian
3. C. Sabel
4. Robert Huggins
5. Piers Thompson

In Strategy and Management

1. D. Ernst
2. AnnaLee Saxenian
3. C. Sabel
4. Keun Lee
5. Henry S. C. Yeung
6. Yonglong Lu
7. Jorrit Gosens
8. John A. Cantwell

Citations in the corpus

• Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the “Periphery”: The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building (2008, background): “…and entrepreneurs that seek to enter a new market must demonstrate not just the ability to produce a certain component or product, but also the ability to improve its design or the process by which it is produced in cooperation with potential customers and their suppliers (Sabel and Zeitlin 2004).”
• Limits to Modularity: Reflections on Recent Developments in Chip Design (2005, methodology): “Design rules need to be ‘‘enabling, i.e. firm enough to encourage modular innovation and recombination—but loose enough not to be constraining to the evolution of the system’’ (Sabel and Zeitlin, 2004: 5, 6 m).”