Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures

MacCormack, A., Baldwin, C., & Rusnak, J. (2012). Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis. Research Policy, 41(8), 1309-1324.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2012

DOI

10.1016/j.respol.2012.04.011

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2012.04.011

Cited from

art_aesthetics, computer_science, engineering_design, library_information_science, mathematics, organizational_management, philosophy

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10 citations across 10 artifacts.

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Primes

• Abstraction

  • This source(Tier C — bibliography only; existence verified.) Tests whether product architecture mirrors the architecture of the developing organization. Link-only.

• Boundary

  • This sourceBibliography-only (Tier C).

• Compatibility
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Conway's Law
  • Software architecture — the original substrate: service boundaries track team boundaries, APIs are costlier where the owning teams talk less, and monolith-to-microservices migrations succeed when the team graph is re-cut first and fail when it is not.

    This sourceEmpirical evidence that product architecture mirrors the developing organization's communication structure, with producer-side causality dominant in matched product comparisons. (

• Decomposition

  • This sourceBibliography-only (tier C). Verified.

• Dependency

  • This sourceEmpirically tests whether product dependency structure mirrors the organization's communication structure. (Bibliography-only.)

• 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 a modular architecture that is theoretically elegant but practically impenetrable to developers who must maintain and integrate it
• Task Interdependence
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.

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