Title
The Role of Technical Standards in Coordinating the Division of Labour in Complex System Industries
Author
W. Edward Steinmueller, Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy
Date
5/02/2008
(Original Publish Date: 3/1/2000)
(Original Publish Date: 3/1/2000)
Abstract
The idea of complex products and systems has featured in a number of recent studies (Miller, Hobday et al. 1995; Rycroft and Cash 1999; Hobday et al. 2000). A central aim of these studies has been to identify the specific managerial, technological, and organisational issues that arise when engineering-intensive design processes are required to create systemic products or other complex artefacts such as civil engineering projects or sophisticated producer goods. Some of these studies use a specific term of art, CoPS (complex products and systems), to refer to a subset of these design-intensive activities that involve relatively small production ‘runs’ of unique design.
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