In an effort to improve customization for today's highly competitive global marketplace, many
companies are utilizing product families and platform-based product development to …

This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a
productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in …

In the last decade, the concept of modularity has caught the attention of engineers,
management researchers and corporate strategists in a number of industries. When a …

Designing modular products can result in many benefits to both manufacturers and
consumers. The development of modular products requires the identification of highly …

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 …

Despite the recent interest of the research community in modularity there is a lack of
agreement of what exactly constitutes modularity. This has constrained empirical work on …

The architecture of a product is determined by both the elements that compose the product
and the way in which they interact with each other. In this paper, we use the design structure …

This study proposes a dependency structure matrix driven genetic algorithm (DSMDGA)
which utilizes the dependency structure matrix (DSM) clustering to extract building block …

In an effort to improve customization for today's highly competitive global marketplace, many
companies are utilizing product families to increase variety, shorten lead-times, and reduce …

We explore the relationship between process architecture decisions, problem solving and
coordination efforts during distributed product development, ie, when development work is …