Near decomposability and the speed of evolution
By Herbert A. Simon. 2002
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Subfields: Genetics, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Toward a Systematic Framework for Research on Dominant Designs, Technological Innovations, and Industrial Change (2006, unknown): “Simon and more recent scholars of modularity in design (Langlois and Robertson, 1992; Ulrich, 1995; Sanchez and Mahoney, 1996; Frenken et al., 1999a; Schilling, 2000; Baldwin and Clark, 2000; Simon, 2002; Ethiraj and Levinthal, 2004) have highlighted that the vast majority of technical systems are n”
- Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: emerging trajectories and challenges (2021, background): “Reducing the degree of complexity and modularizing complex processes (Kauffman and Levin, 1987; Simon, 1969, 2002) enable machines to replace or expand and complement human capabilities (O’Donovan and Smith, 2020).”
- Evolutionary Competition in Platform Ecosystems (2015, background): “First, although modular systems theory asserts that modular systems are more adaptable (e.g., Sanchez and Mahoney 1996, Simon 2002), our results add the Figure 2 The Relationship of Extension Modularization (at Time t1) with Extension Evolution (at Time t2) for High and Low Levels (±1 SD) of Input…”
- Research Commentary - Platform Evolution: Coevolution of Platform Architecture, Governance, and Environmental Dynamics (2010, background): “The more decomposable a platform’s ecosystem is, the greater is the speed and diversity of the adaptive experiments that its constituents engage in (Simon 2002).”
- The Early Development of the Steam Engine: An Evolutionary Interpretation using Complexity Theory (2004, background): “…inspired a number of evolutionary simulations models in economics and organization theory (Kauffman and Macready, 1995; Levinthal, 1997; Frenken et al., 1999a; Gavetti and Levinthal, 2000; Marengo et al., 2000; Rivkin, 2000; Frenken, 2001; Simon, 2002; Dosi et al., 2003). technology in question.”
- Managing technological change in the digital age: the role of architectural frames (2014, background): “468) and suggested that decomposing systems into parts reduces complexity and increases design flexibility (cf. Henderson and Clark, 1990; Schilling, 2000; Simon, 2002; Garud et al., 2003; Murmann and Frenken, 2006).”