Cabigiosu, Anna; Zirpoli, Francesco; Camuffo, Arnaldo - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 3, pp. 662-675
In the last two decades, the auto industry has shown a steady increase of vehicle development outsourcing and a shift of both product development tasks and knowledge from carmakers to suppliers. This trend has increased the interest toward product modularity as a tool to ease the integration of...