Firms achieve their competitive advantage quickly through the concept framework of open innovation by integrating external inspiration with internal endowment when facing hyper-competition in the digital era. This paper deploys open innovation into building platform blocks by modular operators....

Best practice suggests that modular enterprise architectures, where interfaces among business processes and services are standardized, are a key IT capability for firms to achieve profitable growth. According to recent research by Ross, Weill and, Robertson, firms must progress through four...

The purpose of this chapter is to understand how technology contributed to the emergence and evolution of modular production networks between 1980 and the present. In a modular production network, the activities needed to create a functioning system (for example, a personal computer) are...

We propose and analyze modular stable matching mechanisms as a candidate for a foundational framework to address the issues of social welfare and equity in the stable matching model. We present two characterizations for modular stable matching mechanisms that reveal the ordinal content of...