The Evolution of System Architectures: Products, Organizations, and Industries

Engler, Daniel; Lecuona, Ramon; Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Camuffo, Arnaldo; Hoetker, Glenn; Jacobides, Michael G.

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2017.12910symposium

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“…Explorative and conceptual research on different architectures and their interdependencies (Schilling, 2000) Data of product, production, and organizational architectures to test interdependencies between systems (Colfer & Baldwin, 2016) Fundamental cluster Period 3-Service architecture Organizational system Period 4-Mirroring hypothesis System architecture (Baldwin et al, 2014;Engler et al, 2017) NPD concept generation (Cooper, 2019;Evanschitzky et al, 2012;Markham, 2013;Mertens et al, 2021) Design structure modeling and axiomatic design (Eppinger & Browning, 2012;Suh, 2001)…”

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“…This widening scope compels scholars to adopt a broader view of the relationships between different systems-of larger system architectures. Although the concept of system architecture appears in seminal publications (Baldwin & Clark, 2000;Simon, 1962) and more recent ones (Brusoni & Prencipe, 2001;Brusoni & Prencipe, 2011;Engler et al, 2017), research with this explicit focus is marginal. Our study reveals differences in the understanding of system architecture.…”

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Product modularization in new product development has attracted considerable interest among scholars and practitioners from diverse fields of specialization. This has resulted in cross-disciplinary diversity in the field, diverting attention from its overall intellectual structure and hindering the development of a common view and shared concepts. Extant research lacks an integrative review, transcending a focal discipline that could identify gaps and ambiguities while making recommendations to advance the field. Considering a period of 30 years (1990-2020), we generate a data set of 2988 citing publications to which we apply a co-citation analysis. Thereby, we uncover the intellectual structure of the field and find three research perspectives that represent key knowledge bases: (1) product system, (2) production system, and (3) organizational system. Delimiting the data set into four periods, we can track developments over time, where we notice an increasing disintegration of the product system perspective, which is rooted in the discipline of engineering design. Within the two other perspectives, we document extensive dynamism in terms of publications, especially in the two most recent periods, indicating an active discussion and a potential receptivity to new trends. For these periods, we also identify an emerging cluster of fundamental publications and an increasing emphasis on the concept of system architecture. Leveraging the synthesis of these results, we forge links between neighboring disciplines and recommend avenues for further research, ideally to develop a more common view.

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