A Study on Product Development Based on Interfirm Labor Division of Multiple-Platforms and Relevant Issues

本研究探讨开放的企业间分工下的产品开发及其问题。以手机和汽车电子为例，研究表明，尽管专业公司提供的多平台鼓励基于标准化技术规范的产品开发实施，但企业需要积累系统知识来将外部多平台整合到产品中。研究还阐明了不同知识量水平的企业共同形成了企业间产品开发的技术探索与开发分工，从而通过企业的知识量水平与探索/开发活动的结合，发现了企业定位战略的多种原型。

The study explores product development and its issues under open inter-firm labor division. Drawing on the cases of mobile phones and car-electronics, the study shows that firms are required to accumulate system knowledge to integrate external multiple-platforms into products even though these multiple-platforms provided by specialized firms encourage product development implementation based on standardized technology specifications. The study also elucidates that firms each with different knowledge amount levels collectively shape the inter-firm labor division of technology exploration and exploitation for product development, and thereby finds multiple archetypes of firms' positioning strategies by the combination of firms' knowledge amount levels and exploration/exploitation activities.