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  • November 2015
  • Article

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Relational Contracts; Clans; Intellectual Property
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Relational Contracts; Clans; Rights; Complexity; Intellectual Property
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Is the Auction House of the Future Online?

“Balloon Dog (Blue), 2005” by Jeff Koons sold for an undisclosed amount as part of a May Paddle8 auction. (Photo courtesy of Paddle8) When the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan decided to produce just one copy of their album Once Upon A... View Details
Keywords: April White; Wu-Tang Clan
  • 30 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel

    Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

    Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
    • March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
    • Case

    Supercell 2.0: Clash of Plans

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and George Gonzalez
    Founded in 2010, Supercell was a Helsinki, Finland-based mobile gaming company that had developed and launched five global hit mobile games: Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Hay Day, Brawl Stars, and Boom Beach. The company’s early philosophy was that it could produce... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Video Game Industry; Finland
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    • March 2016
    • Article

    Environmental Demands and the Emergence of Social Structure: Technological Dynamism and Interorganizational Network Forms

    By: Adam Tatarynowicz, Maxim Sytch and Ranjay Gulati
    This study investigates the origins of variation in the structures of interorganizational networks across industries. We combine empirical analyses of existing interorganizational networks in six industries with an agent-based simulation model of network emergence.... View Details
    Keywords: Interorganizatonal Relationships; Social Networks; Network Emergence; Interorganizational Networks; Information Technology; Networks; Organizational Structure; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media
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    The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    merchants, making personal fortunes through sales with Western traders The hong merchants cultivated close relationships with Western traders like Augustine Heard and provided them with valuable guidance. “[Houqua’s] great success was at least due in part to his... View Details
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    Minding Families' Business

    maintaining a family business for more than two generations (and given his own failed attempt to enter a business relationship with his father after graduating from HBS), the current patriarch of his clan knows all about the difficulties... View Details
    Keywords: Daniel Penrice
    • 29 Nov 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

    definitions of a small world. In layman's terms, the best way to think about a small-world network is that there are local clusters, much like caves. Within these caves you have a small clan of people tightly connected together, with... View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 17

    system. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the technical system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them. Extensions of the model can be used to incorporate... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 02 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 2, 2016

    networks take on distinct structural forms. Technologically stable industries feature clan networks, characterized by low network connectedness and rather strong community structures. Technologically dynamic industries feature community... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8

    expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 28 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 28

    of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them. Extensions address screening and signaling in hiring, the effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne