Promotion of transnational strategies is inevitable for multinational companies, but a fundamental challenge is the resolution of the dilemma between cost reduction and local adaptation (responsiveness). This exploratory case study investigates this issue and motivates that a modular strategy...

The rapid evolution of the global economy, driven by digitization and modularization, has outpaced existing theoretical tools. This paper proposes a unified analytical framework for understanding the complexity of digital industries through the lens of Massive Modular Ecosystems. To...

Business complexity is an important informational friction but challenging to measure. We use a GPT large language model fine-tuned on narrative disclosures and inline XBRL tags to measure business complexity from a user perspective. Our measure negatively correlates with the speed of capital...

We begin paper with a descriptive analysis of the growing role of modular innovation across several industries that uncovers regularities of US patent dynamics. Based on this, we develop a set of game-theoretic models for studying the impact of strategic modular innovation investments in...

This study triangulates three interrelated and interdependent goals. First, we provide a framework to establish the supply chain (SC) theory within the linchpins of the nine waves of sustainability theory. Second, we provide a real-world example of how blockchain operates to support the premise...

We propose a new model formulation for a three-echelon supply network design problem incorporating the concept of relocatable modular capacities. A robust supply network configuration must be determined based on uncertain demand. Furthermore, by incorporating the conditional value at risk...

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....

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...

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...