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The Role of Technical Standards in Coordinating the Division of Labour in Complex System Industries

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)
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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