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Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case
(2014-01-27)
We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of ...
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case
(2014-01-27)
We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and ...
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
(2014-01-27)
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information ...
Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
(2014-01-13)
This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new ...
IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property
(2012-08-07)
Distributed value creation can boost the overall value created, but may create serious challenges for capturing value. In order to draw in external contributors, an innovator often waives legal exclusion rights or reveals ...
The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors
(Oxford Journals, 2012)
Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two ...
Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry
(2012-07-25)
Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory: that agents respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights, when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments. (Grossman and Hart, 1986; ...
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map Product Architecture
(2014)
In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterizing the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon ...
Organization Design for Business Ecosystems
(2012)
The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production ...
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities
(2014-11-06)
How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical ...