Enterprise design
Subtitle: a task structure plus a contract structure
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark
Contributors: Harvard Business School. Division of Research; Clark, Kim B.
Edition: Rev.].
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 98-054; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 98-054
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Electronic digital computers; Design and construction; History; Computer industry; Industrial organization
Description: The purpose of this chapter is first, to describe the enterprise design that IBM's managers adopted for System/360, and second, to describe how that enterprise design affected: IBM's customers; competitors; employees; and computer architects at other companies.
Notes: Revision of: The value of augmenting and excluding. c1997.

Chapter 8 of forthcoming book: Design rules : the power of modularity.

Includes bibliographical references.