Modularity in technology and organization

被引：474

作者：

Langlois, RN ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Connecticut, Dept Econ, Storrs, CT 06269 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION | 2002年 / 49卷 / 01期

关键词：

modularity; property rights; transaction costs; capabilities; standards;

D O I：

10.1016/S0167-2681(02)00056-2

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper is an attempt to raid both the literature. on modular design and the literature on property rights to create the outlines of a modularity theory of the firm. Such a theory will look at firms, and other organizations, in terms of the partitioning of rights-understood as protected spheres of authority-among cooperating parties. And it will assert that organizations reflect nonmodular structures, that is, structures in which decision rights, rights of alienation, and residual claims to income do not all reside in the same hands. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：19 / 37

页数：19