Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and OrganizationsISBN: 978-0-631-23316-9
Paperback
420 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.