Organizing the Electronic Century

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Richard N. Langlois;
(2007)
  • Subject: electronics, modularity, product architecture, vertical integration.
    • jel: jel:N62 | jel:L63 | jel:O34 | jel:L2 | jel:O33
This paper's title is an echo of Alfred Chandler's (2001) chronicle of the electronics industry, Inventing the Electronic Century. The paper attempts (A) a general reinterpretation of the pattern of technological advance in (American) electronics over the twentieth cent... View more
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