Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2016 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016: Making Organizations Meaningful - Anaheim, United States Duration: 5 Aug 2016 → 9 Aug 2016 Conference number: 76 http://aom.org/annualmeeting/ |
Conference
| Conference | The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016 |
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| Number | 76 |
| Country | United States |
| City | Anaheim |
| Period | 05/08/2016 → 09/08/2016 |
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Bibliographical note
CBS Library does not have access to the materialKeywords
- Interfaces
- Modularity
- Product design
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Micro-Foundations of Product Interfaces and Their Implications on Product and Organization Design. / Donmez, Mehmet; Hsuan, Juliana.
2016. Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2016, Anaheim, United States.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Micro-Foundations of Product Interfaces and Their Implications on Product and Organization Design
AU - Donmez, Mehmet
AU - Hsuan, Juliana
N1 - CBS Library does not have access to the material
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Despite the importance of product interfaces for product development organizations, little is known about how product interfaces manage component interdependencies. In order to answer this question, we make one of the initial attempts to define micro-foundational interface properties by building on and extending the seminal works of Simon (1962) and Parnas (1972) on which the literature on modularity and product architecture is built. Rather than being simple linkages, we show that interfaces exhibit a core-periphery structure by underlining the importance of functional interdependencies managed by interfaces in addition to structural interdependencies. Our theoretical reasoning illustrates that the differentiation and integration role of interfaces and the functional and structural interdependencies managed by product interfaces inform three interface properties: structural thickness, functional thickness and conductivity of interfaces for the interface core and periphery. We illustrate the congruence of these properties with examples and discuss their implications for product design, organization design and the relationship between product and organization design, the so-called mirroring hypothesis.
AB - Despite the importance of product interfaces for product development organizations, little is known about how product interfaces manage component interdependencies. In order to answer this question, we make one of the initial attempts to define micro-foundational interface properties by building on and extending the seminal works of Simon (1962) and Parnas (1972) on which the literature on modularity and product architecture is built. Rather than being simple linkages, we show that interfaces exhibit a core-periphery structure by underlining the importance of functional interdependencies managed by interfaces in addition to structural interdependencies. Our theoretical reasoning illustrates that the differentiation and integration role of interfaces and the functional and structural interdependencies managed by product interfaces inform three interface properties: structural thickness, functional thickness and conductivity of interfaces for the interface core and periphery. We illustrate the congruence of these properties with examples and discuss their implications for product design, organization design and the relationship between product and organization design, the so-called mirroring hypothesis.
KW - Interfaces
KW - Modularity
KW - Product design
KW - Interfaces
KW - Modularity
KW - Product design
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2016.14834abstract
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2016.14834abstract
M3 - Paper
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