When the mirror gets misted up: Modularity and technological change

A Furlan, A Cabigiosu, A Camuffo - Strategic Management …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates how component technological change affects the relationship
between product modularity and organizational modularity (the across‐firm mirroring …

Product and organizational modularity: a contingent view of the mirroring hypothesis

MF Sorkun, A Furlan - European Management Review, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to advance a contingent view of the mirroring hypothesis, focusing on the
causal effect of product modularity on organizational modularity. It compares the group of …

Beyond the “mirroring” hypothesis: Product modularity and interorganizational relations in the air conditioning industry

A Cabigiosu, A Camuffo - Organization Science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
This study explores whether, to what extent, and under which conditions modular products
are associated with modular organizations (the “mirroring” hypothesis). We analyze the …

When do product architectures mirror organisational architectures? The combined role of product complexity and the rate of technological change

N Burton, P Galvin - Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In the modularity literature, an architectural decomposition and 'mirroring'between task
boundaries, knowledge boundaries, and firm boundaries has been suggested as a way to …

Do modular products lead to modular organizations?

G Hoetker - Strategic management journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The tacit assumption that increased product modularity is associated with advantageous
increases in organizational modularity underlies much of the literature on modularity …

Toward a general modular systems theory and its application to interfirm product modularity

MA Schilling - Academy of management review, 2000 - journals.aom.org
Many systems migrate toward increasing or decreasing modularity, yet no explicit causal
models exist to explain this process. In this article the author builds a general theory of …

Toward a contingent model of mirroring between product and organization: a knowledge management perspective

E Leo - Journal of product innovation management, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Much of the contemporary modularity literature subscribes to the idea that increased product
modularity is associated with advantageous increase in organizational modularity. Known …

How modularity influences product innovation: The mediating role of module suppliers' relationship-specific investments

Y Sun, Q Zhong - Management Decision, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer novel and complementary insights into the
relationship between product modularity and product innovation by investigating the …

[DOC][DOC] Modularity in multiple disciplines

MA Schilling - Managing in the modular age: Architectures …, 2002 - researchgate.net
In the article," Towards a general modular systems theory and its application to interfirm
product modularity," I argued that since modularity was a general systems concept, we might …

Benefiting from modularity within and across firm boundaries

R Tee - Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019 - academic.oup.com
While existing research has shown the impact modularity can have on organizations, how
firms themselves manage the interdependencies underlying modular designs is less well …