Works
- Design rules, volume 1: the power of modularity, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000
- The mirroring hypothesis: theory, evidence, and exceptions, Industrial and Corporate Change 25(5), 709 to 738, 2016
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Design rules and modularity.
Ideas
The mirroring hypothesis. Organizational ties tend to correspond to the technical dependencies in the work, a prevalent but not universal pattern that firms can strategically break. Caveat: Open collaborative projects did not support the hypothesis.
Modularity and mirroring. With Colfer, Baldwin reviewed 142 studies of whether organizational ties mirror technical dependencies and found mirroring prevalent but not universal. Caveat: A review.