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Engineering challenges of intrafirm technology reuse
Author(s) -
Corin Stig Daniel,
Bergsjö Dag
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
systems engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1520-6858
pISSN - 1098-1241
DOI - 10.1002/sys.21475
Subject(s) - reuse , transaction cost , database transaction , computer science , product (mathematics) , new product development , value (mathematics) , business , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering management , engineering , marketing , mathematics , database , geometry , finance , waste management , machine learning
Companies derive additional value from technological investments by repeatedly applying them across different product lines in their portfolios. Technology reuse strategies have helped to increase efficiency in leveraging research and development investments, but the attempts to explain how to duplicate such results for technology reuse at the engineering level are missing. While there are synergetic effects to the reuse of technologies, there are also transaction costs that limit the benefits in practice. This paper presents a model, along with three examples, of technology reuse to help account for these transaction costs and mitigate the fallacy of perceiving technologies as reusable “off‐the‐shelf” elements.