Browsing by Author "Baldwin, Carliss"
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The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors
Luo, Jianxi; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Whitney, Daniel E.; Magee, Christopher L. (Oxford Journals, 2012)Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two ... -
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities
Baldwin, Carliss Young (2014-11-06)How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical ... -
Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance
Maccormack, Alan D.; Lagerstrom, Robert; Mocker, Martin; Baldwin, Carliss Young (2017-06-28)The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of ... -
Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Young (2017-03-21)This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th Century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer ... -
Exploring the duality between product and organizational architectures: A test of the “mirroring” hypothesis
Maccormack, Alan D.; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Rusnak, John (Elsevier BV, 2012)A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case
Lagerström, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D.; Sturtevant, Dan; Doolan, Lee (2017-03-21)Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity, for predicting defects has been given a lot of attention over the years and proven very useful. However, the few studies looking at software architecture and ... -
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map Product Architecture
Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D.; Rusnak, John (2014)In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterizing the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon ... -
IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property
Henkel, Joachim; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Shih, WIlly C. (2012-08-07)Distributed value creation can boost the overall value created, but may create serious challenges for capturing value. In order to draw in external contributors, an innovator often waives legal exclusion rights or reveals ... -
A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise Architecture and Evaluating Enterprise IT Flexibility
Maccormack, Alan D.; Lagerstrom, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young (2015-01-29)We propose a network-based methodology for analyzing a firm’s enterprise architecture. Our methodology uses “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs) to capture the coupling between components in the architecture, including both ... -
The mirroring hypothesis: theory, evidence, and exceptions
Colfer, Lyra J.; Baldwin, Carliss Young (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical dependencies in the work being performed. ... -
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
Baldwin, Carliss Young; Henkel, Joachim (2014-01-27)Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information ... -
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
Baldwin, Carliss Young; Henkel, Joachim (2015)Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information ... -
Organization Design for Business Ecosystems
Baldwin, Carliss Young (2012)The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production ... -
Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry
Kuppuswamy, Venkat; Baldwin, Carliss Young (2012-07-25)Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory: that agents respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights, when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments. (Grossman and Hart, 1986; ... -
Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
Gil, Nuno; Baldwin, Carliss Young (2014-01-13)This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new ... -
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case
Lagerstrom, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D.; Aier, Stephan (2014-01-27)We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of ... -
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case
Lagerstrom, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D.; Dreyfus, David (2014-01-27)We test a method that was designed and used previously to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software systems. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the components and ... -
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case
Lagerström, Robert; Baldwin, Carliss Young; Maccormack, Alan D. (2015)In this paper, we test a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) based method for visualizing and measuring software portfolio architectures. Our data is drawn from a power utility company, comprising 192 software applications with ...