Fragmented firm

One of the many members of a network-firm.

"The strategy of breaking a production system into smaller subsystems, tasks and activities, on a technological as well as an organizational level, modularity of production.

Even in industries where some of the functions can be broken apart and relocated at a distance, other functions may still clump together."
(Berger, S., How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy, Doubleday Broadway, 2005, p. 220)