http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/11/25/a-note-on-systems-integration/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:11:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/11/25/a-note-on-systems-integration/#comment-72221 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:01:25 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/11/25/a-note-on-systems-integration/#comment-72221 [...] A Note on Systems Integration by Dick Langlois on Organizations and Markets [...]

]]> http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/11/25/a-note-on-systems-integration/#comment-72198 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:25:12 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/11/25/a-note-on-systems-integration/#comment-72198 It seems that Super Micro is a classic Taiwanese-style family business. It has a primary manufacturing supplier (Ablecom) that is 80% family-owned, which is awfully close to vertical integration. Of course, it buys its key components from Intel and AMD, so the point of this post is not entirely vitiated, but the interpretation is not as straightforward as it first appears.

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