Core readings:
- Langlois, R. and Robertson, P. L. (1992) Networks and innovation in a modular system: lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries, Research Policy, 21 (4), 297-313.*
- Sturgeon, T.J. (2002) Modular production networks: a new American model of industrial organisation, Industrial and Corporate Change, 11 (3), pp. 451-496.
- Langlois, R. (2002) Computers and semiconductors in Steil, B., Victor, D. and Nelson, R. (eds.) Technological Innovation and Economic Performance, New Jersey, Princeton.
- Baldwin, C. Y. and K. B. Clark (1997) Managing in an Age of Modularity, Harvard Business Review, 75(5), 84-93.
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