Toward a General Modular Systems Theory and Its Application to Interfirm Product Modularity

By Melissa A. Schilling. 2000

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Product architecture assessment: a tool to link product, process, and supply chain design decisions (2005, background): “Others concentrate on a system’s ability to accept upgrades and re-use (Garud and Kumaraswamy, 1996), or on the forces that drive a system towards (e.g., demand heterogeneity) or away from (e.g., synergistic specificity) higher levels of modularity (Schilling, 2000).”
The Incident Command System: High-Reliability Organizing for Complex and Volatile Task Environments (2001, background): “A system is modular to the extent that its components can be separated and recombined in various ways while system functionality relative to environmental demand is maintained or enhanced (Schilling, 2000).”
Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code (2006, background): “…structure in the successful development of a firm's new products and services, the competitiveness of its product lines and the successful evolution of its technical capabilities (e.g., Eppinger et al, 1994; Ulrich, 1995; Sanderson and Uzumeri, 1995; Sanchez and Mahoney, 1996; Schilling, 2000).”
Postponement: a review and an integrated framework (2004, background): “Modularity in organisation relates to those organisational processes, governance structures and contracting procedures that are adopted or utilised to accommodate modular production at both the intra- and inter-firm context ( Schilling, 2000”
Introduction - Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age (2018, background): “4 Modularity refers to the degree to which a product can be decomposed into components that can be recombined (Schilling 2000).”
Temporarily Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation (2003, background): “The decomposability of decision problems has recently attracted renewed attention in the literature on modularity (Schilling 2000).”
Industry Change Through Vertical Disintegration: How and Why Markets Emerged in Mortgage Banking (2005, background): “This evolution does not quite fit recent work on organizational theory and modularity (Baldwin & Clark, 2000; Schilling, 2000; Simon, 1962), which usually examines design problems from the perspective of a “system designer.”
Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, positive): “…returns to adoption, it created strong incentives for producers to adopt standardized interfaces and a modular production system that would enable a wide range of third-party complement developers to create complements for a common platform (e.g., Matutes & Regibeau, 1988; Schilling, 1998, 2000).”
Considering planned change anew:stretching large group interventions strategically, emotionally and meaningfully (2011, background): “…change has to occur in an “all at once” punctuated equilibrium as opposed to more incrementally, may depend on issues to do with modularity, the extent to which a system’s components can be segregated and recombined and the tightness of coupling (Rivkin, 2000; Schilling, 2000; Siggelkow, 2001).”
Complementarities Between Organizational IT Architecture and Governance Structure (2010, background): “The crux of modular systems theory is that greater modularity facilitates rapid changes in individual subsystems by lowering the need for coordinated changes in others (Schilling 2000).”