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    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations series
    14 Nov 2019Working Paper Summaries

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations series

    by Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Building on Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, coauthored by HBS professor Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (MIT Press, 2000).
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    These working papers explain how and why different types of technology design pose different opportunities and challenges for organizations and can become vital forces of innovation.

    • Complementarity | HBS Working Paper No. 19-037
    • The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships | HBS Working Paper No. 19-042
    • The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action | HBS Working Paper No. 19-042
    • Rationalizing Flow Processes | HBS Working Paper No. 20-032
    • Organizing to Rationalize | HBS Working Paper No. 20-033
    • Variations on the Theme of Flow Production | HBS Working Paper No. 20-034
    • Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The Value of Options and the Power of Modularity | HBS Working Paper No. 19-073
    • Introducing Open Platforms and Ecosystems | HBS Working Paper No. 19-035
    • Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems | HBS Working Paper No. 20-054
    • The Wintel Standards-based Platform | HBS Working Paper No. 20-055
  • The IBM PC | HBS Working Paper No. 19-074
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