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Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations

Raghu Garud (Editor), Arun Kumaraswamy (Editor), Richard Langlois (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-23315-2
Hardcover
424 pages
November 2002
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  • Includes contributions from leading scholars of technology and organization.
  • Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together different products and systems, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications.
  • Consolidates and defines an area of inquiry that is becoming increasingly important with the development of web-based and 'network' industries.
  • Sensitizes readers to the complexity of issues surrounding new modular products and systems created by e-business
  • Encourages readers to make connections among different levels and disciplines.
  • Initiates a debate around issues of modularity.
  • Includes a commentary co-authored by the late Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon to whom the book is dedicated.

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