The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

Colfer, Lyra J.; Baldwin, Carliss Y.

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“…These insights are also reinforced by evidence regarding the opposite influence-for example, in 2010 Colfer and Baldwin [79] complemented Conway's law verifying the validity of their "mirroring hypothesis", which assumed that the organisational patterns of a development community (e.g., team co-membership and geographic distribution, communication links) mirror the technical dependency patterns of the software under development. With respect to these works, the results outlined in this paper take a nontrivial further step.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 93%

Exploring Community Smells in Open-Source: An Automated Approach

Tamburri

Palomba

Kazman

2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

104

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 93%

Exploring Community Smells in Open-Source: An Automated Approach

Tamburri

Palomba

Kazman

2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

104

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“…In the aspect of organization design modularization, a new direction has emerged in the field of strategy and technology innovation, the correspondence and matching relationship between technology and organization. A representative theory in this direction is the "mirror image" hypothesis, which is closely related to the product design [27,28]. Building a modular organization, standard component interfaces or design rules are thought to reduce the need for business coordination or communication [25,29].…”

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Decoupling Strategy and Modular Design for Loosely Coupled Organizations

Zhang

Fengyan

Zhang

2021

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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Under the technological innovation network, loosely coupled organizations featured by weak connections and relative independence have formed through the dynamic division of labor and knowledge sharing of enterprises. The loosely coupled organizations greatly enhance cooperation performance, but face problems such as poor flexible matching between partners and low innovation efficiency. Meanwhile, modular organizations can connect with other organizations to realize a specific operational goal via contracts and carry prominent features such as collaborative innovation, adaptive division of labor, and dynamic capabilities, offering an effective network governance model for collaboration between enterprises. Based on the two dimensions (looseness and coupling) between organizations, this paper uses the design dependency matrix (DDM) to map demands for functional/design modules, under the division of labor within products and the decisions on product modules, and preliminarily decouple the functional/design modules. Based on clustering DDM, a decision structure matrix (DSM) was constructed, and the clustering decoupling algorithm was adopted to create clustering design structure modules. Referring to these clustering modules, intraproduct division of labor was performed to realize the modular cooperation between organizations.

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“…However, how product design informs the location of firm boundaries within or across national boundaries has otherwise been neglected. We respond to the call by Colfer and Baldwin (2016) and Elia, et al, (in press) for empirical work that offers further explication of the mirroring hypothesis. Our approach is embedded within the innovation literature, and draws upon innovation types discussed by Henderson and Clark (1990) and the later connected between innovation types and firm boundaries elaborated by Wolter and Veloso (2008).…”

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“…A further stream of research has examined the extent to which nested systems may correspond to each other (eg. Colfer & Baldwin, 2016), and subsequently, the extent to which certain contingenciessuch as product complexity and the rate of technological change -may 'mist' the mirror (Burton & Galvin, 2018a;Furlan, Cabigiosu & Camuffo, 2014;Sorkun & Furlan, 2017).…”

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Understanding cross border innovation activities: The linkages between innovation modes, product architecture and firm boundaries

Meissner

Burton

Galvin

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Research

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This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.) UNDERSTANDING CROSS BORDER INNOVATION ACTIVITIES: THE LINKAGES BETWEEN INOVATION MODES, PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE AND FIRM BOUNDARIESGlobal value chains are a complex and nested system to do with how a firm sets its firm boundaries (across two or more national boundaries), and manages its task allocation, its knowledge assets, and its product design and innovation (Rezek, Srai & Williamson, 2016;Srai & Alinaghian, 2013). A significant stream of the international business literature has examined firm boundaries and the way in which a firm manages its global value chain (eg.

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The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

Cited by 21 publications

References 175 publications

Exploring Community Smells in Open-Source: An Automated Approach

Exploring Community Smells in Open-Source: An Automated Approach

Decoupling Strategy and Modular Design for Loosely Coupled Organizations

Understanding cross border innovation activities: The linkages between innovation modes, product architecture and firm boundaries

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