Justification and interlaced knowledge at ATLAS, CERN

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1579-1608

  Tuertscher, Philipp ^a,b   Garud, Raghu ^c   Kumaraswamy, Arun ^d,e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Complexity; Coordination; Design; Innovation; Knowledge integration across boundaries; Knowledge management; Modularity; New product development; Technological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908535278     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0894     Document Type: Article

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