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Carliss Y. Baldwin

Carliss Y. Baldwin

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Business and Management

D-Index
42
Citations
22025
World Ranking
1440
National Ranking
608

Overview

Carliss Y. Baldwin is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their scholarly work predominantly focuses on Strategy and Management, with significant involvement in Management Science and Operations Research as well as Economics and Econometrics.

Their research covers several subfields and topics, including:

  • Strategy and Management
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Sociology and Political Science

Key areas of research interest are:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Product Development and Customization
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Auction Theory and Applications

Baldwin has published frequently in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Academy of Management Proceedings, and Research Policy. Their most common publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Research Policy
  • California Management Review
  • Industrial and Corporate Change

Significant recent papers authored by Baldwin include:

  • Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies, 2024, Research Policy
  • Design rules: past and future, 2022, Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Design Rules, Volume 2: Chapter 5-Ecosystems and Complementarities, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Design Rules, Volume 2: Chapter 12-The Planar Process and Moore's Law, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Marcel Bogers
  • Michael G. Jacobides
  • Rahul Kapoor
  • Joel West
  • Marcus Holgersson

Best Publications

  • Design Rules: The Power of Modularity

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • MANAGING IN AN AGE OF MODULARITY

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

    Carliss Baldwin;Eric von Hippel

  • Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;C. Jason Woodard

  • How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Christopher Hienerth;Eric Von Hippel

  • Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

    Alan MacCormack;John Rusnak;Carliss Y. Baldwin

  • The Architecture of Participation: Does Code Architecture Mitigate Free Riding in the Open Source Development Model?

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • Where do transactions come from? Modularity, transactions, and the boundaries of firms

    Carliss Y. Baldwin

  • Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • The mirroring hypothesis: theory, evidence, and exceptions

    Lyra J. Colfer;Carliss Young Baldwin

  • Exploring the duality between product and organizational architectures: A test of the 'mirroring' hypothesis

    Alan D. Maccormack;Carliss Young Baldwin;John Rusnak

  • Modularity in the Design of Complex Engineering Systems

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • The power of modularity

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self- Enforcing Contracts

    Carliss Y. Baldwin

  • Optimal Sequential Investment When Capital is Not Readily Reversible

    Carliss Y. Baldwin

  • CAPABILITIES AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CAPITAL BUDGETING

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim B. Clark

  • The Resolution of Claims in Financial Distress the Case of Massey Ferguson

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Scott P. Mason

  • Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Eric A. von Hippel

  • Organization Design for Business Ecosystems

    Carliss Young Baldwin

  • Prize-based contests can provide solutions to computational biology problems

    Karim R. Lakhani;Kevin J. Boudreau;Kevin J. Boudreau;Po-Ru Loh;Lars Backstrom

  • The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field

    Sandeep Purao;Carliss Y. Baldwin;Alan R. Hevner;Veda C. Storey

  • How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study

    Christoph Hienerth;Eric A. von Hippel;Carliss Y. Baldwin

  • The Option Value of Modularity in Design An Example from Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity

    Carliss Y. Baldwin;Kim Clark;Kim Clark;Kim Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim B. Clark
Kim B. Clark Brigham Young University
Joachim Henkel
Joachim Henkel Technical University of Munich
Michael C. Jensen
Michael C. Jensen Harvard University
Ron Adner
Ron Adner Dartmouth College
Constance E. Helfat
Constance E. Helfat Dartmouth College
Jan Pries-Heje
Jan Pries-Heje Roskilde University
Alan R. Hevner
Alan R. Hevner University of South Florida
Po-Ru Loh
Po-Ru Loh Harvard Medical School

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