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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262024667
ISBN-139780262024662
eBay Product ID (ePID)622937
Product Key Features
Number of Pages484 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDesign Rules Vol. 1 : the Power of Modularity
Publication Year2000
SubjectIndustries / Computers & Information Technology, Engineering (General), Organizational Behavior, Management, Electronics / Digital
TypeTextbook
AuthorKim B. Clark, Carliss Y. Baldwin
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Business & Economics
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight37.2 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width8.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-016204
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Volume NumberVolume 1
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal621.39
SynopsisWe live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing buyers and sellers together, and of creating and using market information. Although our fast-moving economy often seems to be outside of our influence or control, human beings create the things that create the market forces. Devices, software programs, production processes, contracts, firms, and markets are all the fruit of purposeful action: they are designed. Using the computer industry as an example, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark develop a powerful theory of design and industrial evolution. They argue that the industry has experienced previously unimaginable levels of innovation and growth because it embraced the concept of modularity, building complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. Modularity freed designers to experiment with different approaches, as long as they obeyed the established design rules. Drawing upon the literatures of industrial organization, real options, and computer architecture, the authors provide insight into the forces of change that drive today's economy.
LC Classification NumberTK7885.A5B35 1999
