Justification and Interlaced Knowledge at ATLAS, CERN

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tuertscher, Philipp; Garud, Raghu; Kumaraswamy, Arun
• 署名单位: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE); West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0894
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1579-1608
• 关键词: Collaboration; complexity; COORDINATION; DESIGN; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; knowledge integration across boundaries; modularity; new product development; technological systems

摘要

We report on a longitudinal study of the emergence of the ATLAS detector, a complex technological system developed at CERN, Geneva. Our data show that the coordination of initial architectural choices was driven by cycles of contestation and justification that resulted in the creation of what we term interlaced knowledge-pockets of shared knowledge interwoven within and across subsystem communities at ATLAS. We also found that these justifications were possible because of the presence of a boundary infrastructure that served as a common substrate of knowledge for all ATLAS participants. Together, the boundary infrastructure and interlaced knowledge enabled participants to make co-oriented technological choices, address latent interdependencies, and minimize the incidence and severity of glitches when integrating the various subsystems.