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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Max Boisot; et al |
ISBN: | 9780199567928 0199567921 |
OCLC Number: | 963862175 |
Description: | XX, 315 p. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction - Big Science Challenges in the Twenty-First Century ; 1. What is ATLAS? ; 2. A Conceptual Framework: The I-Space ; 3. Emergent Strategies and New Research management Models: Lessons from the ATLAS Adhocracy ; 4. The Concept of an Atlas Architecture ; 5. ATLAS as Collective Strategy ; 6. Buying under Conditions of Uncertainty: A Proactive Approach ; 7. Learning and Innovation in Procurement: The Case of ATLAS-type Projects ; 8. A Tale of four Atlas Suppliers ; 9. From Russia With Love: A Contributing Country Perspective ; 10. The Individual in the ATLAS Collaboration: A Learning Perspective ; 11. Leadership in the ATLAS Collaboration ; 12. ATLAS and e-Science ; 13. ATLAS and the Future of High-Energy Physics |
Responsibility: | edited by Max Boisot ... [et al.]. |
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This is a masterful piece of research that will make an enduring contribution to our knowledge of how the organization of science develops at the frontier of knowledge. Boisot and his many colleagues have crafted an excellent volume that convincingly explains why management theorists may have more to learn about scientific organization from physicists than vice versa. Henry Chesbrough, Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology This book has vast implications far beyond CERN, The Large Hadron Collider, and the Atlas project. Based on the concept of "Information Space", 3000 scientists and others face the irreducible unknown. Standard planning and optimization fail. Emergence and generativity succeed. This book is a prolegomenon for governments and an emergent set of interwoven global civilizations. Stuart Kauffman, MacArthur Fellow FRSC, Santa Fe Institute, University of Vermont, and author of At Home in the Universe, Investigations, and others Read more...

