Modularity, flexibility, and knowledge management in product and organization design.

Sanchez, R., & Mahoney, J. T. (1996). Modularity, flexibility, and knowledge management in product and organization design. Strategic Management Journal, 17, 63-76.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1996

Volume

17

Pages

63-76

ISSN

1097-0266

DOI

10.1002/smj.4250171107

DOI registrant

Wiley

Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250171107

Cited from

art_aesthetics, computer_science, engineering_design, mathematics, military_strategic_studies, organizational_management, philosophy

Cited by

10 citations across 10 artifacts.

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Primes

• Abstraction

  • This sourceStandardized interfaces embed coordination, enabling modular product and organization design.

• Boundary
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Compatibility
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Decomposition
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• Dependency

  • This sourceArgues standardized interfaces embed coordination, so module dependencies need not be actively managed once interfaces are fixed.

• Layering
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Minimalism
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Modularity
  • A common failure is specifying rigid interfaces that become bottlenecks (every change requires interface redesign) or overly flexible interfaces that are complex to understand and implement correctly

    This sourceArgues that standardized interfaces between modular components embed hierarchical coordination, enabling firms to recombine product and organizational components for strategic flexibility without redesigning the system as a whole.

• Preparatory Field Conditioning
  • … state is written down as a value, a tolerance and a time at which it must hold, the two halves of the work can decouple: whoever conditions the field owns the obligation to move the state into range and hold it there until the appointed hour, and whoever performs the focal act owns succeeding against a field in range.
• Task Interdependence
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