Modularity in technology and organization

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-37

  Langlois, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Modularity; Property rights; Standards; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036101597     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(02)00056-2     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Some economics of property rights
2. Production, information costs, and economic organization
3. The participatory generation of information rents and the theory of the firm
4. Managing in an age of modularity
5. The entrepreneur's reward for self-policing
6. Symmetric tragedies: Commons and anti-commons
7. The nature of the firm
8. The problem of social cost
9. Clio and the economics of QWERTY
10. The economics of compatibility standards: An introduction to recent research
11. Toward a theory of property rights
12. Book review of Oliver Hart, Firms, contracts, and financial structure
13. Standardization, compatibility, and innovation
14. Knowledge-based approaches to the theory of the firm: Some critical comments
15. More critical comments on knowledge-based theories of the firm
16. Assets, attributes, and ownership
17. Property rights and economic theory: A survey of recent literature
18. The embeddedness of technological systems
19. An economist's perspective on the theory of the firm
20. The use of knowledge in society
21. The tragedy of the anticommons: Property in the transition from Marx to markets
22. Can patents deter innovation? The anticommons in biomedical research
23. Pragmatic collaborations: Advancing knowledge while controlling opportunism
24. Architectural innovation: The reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms
25. Competence and contract in the theory of the firm
26. Managing the new product development process: How Japanese companies learn and unlearn
27. Specific and general knowledge, and organizational structure
28. Network externalities, competition, and compatibility
29. Vertical integration, appropriable rents, and the competitive contracting process
30. Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities, and the replication of technology
31. Cost-benefit analysis, environmentalism, and rights
32. External economies and economic progress: The case of the microcomputer industry
33. Transaction-cost economics in real time
34. Cognition and capabilities: Opportunities seized and missed in the history of the computer industry
35. Personal capitalism as charismatic authority: The organizational economics of a weberian concept
36. Frank Knight on risk, uncertainty, and the firm: A new interpretation
37. Explaining vertical integration: Lessons from the American automobile industry
38. Networks and innovation in a modular system: Lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries
39. Standards, modularity, and innovation: The case of medical practice
40. The fable of the keys
41. Network externalities: An uncommon tragedy
42. Three types of market process
43. On the criteria for decomposing systems into modules
44. Making cars and making money in the interwar automobile industry: Economies of scale and scope and the manufacturing behind the marketing
45. The organisation of industry
46. Modularity, flexibility, and knowledge management in product and organizational design
47. The professions in theory and history: The case of pharmacy
48. The maintenance of professional authority: The case of the physicians and hospitals in the united states
49. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128
50. On the impossibility of a paretian liberal
51. The architecture of complexity
52. Cooperation between rivals: Informal know-how trading
53. Task partitioning: An innovation process variable