When the mirror gets misted up: Modularity and technological change
研究了组件技术变革如何影响产品模块化与组织模块化之间的关系，发现对于技术动态组件，跨企业镜像假设不成立，买卖双方仍需信息共享。
This study investigates how component technological change affects the relationship between product modularity and organizational modularity (the across‐firm mirroring hypothesis). Studying the air conditioning industry, we show that the across‐firm mirroring hypothesis does not hold for technologically dynamic components and the associated supply relationships. In this case, the mirror gets “misted up” with buyers and suppliers having recourse to information sharing even in the presence of highly modular components. Our study contributes to the debate on the organizational implications of modularity and its ramifications for the theory of the firm . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.