Perovic, Slobodan (2018) Egalitarian Paradise or Factory Drudgery? Organizing Knowledge Production in High Energy Physics (HEP) Laboratories. [Preprint]

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The organization of cutting-edge HEP laboratories has evolved in the intersection of academia, state agencies, and industry. Exponentially ever-larger and more complex knowledge-intensive operations, the laboratories have often faced the challenges of, and required organizational solutions similar to, those identified by a cluster of diverse theories falling under the larger heading of organization theory. The cluster has either shaped or accounted for the organization of industry and state administration. The theories also apply to HEP laboratories, as they have gradually and uniquely hybridized their principles and solutions. Yet scholarship has virtually ignored this linkage and has almost exclusively focused on the laboratories’ presumably unique egalitarian organizational aspects. Guided by the principles developed in the organization theory cluster, we identify the basic organizational features of HEP laboratories in relation to their pursuit of narrow and broad epistemic goals. We also provide a set of criteria and methods for assessing the efficiency of the identified organizational features in achieving such goals.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Perovic, Slobodan sperovic@f.bg.ac.rs
Keywords:	Social epistemology; High Energy Physics; Organization Theory; Scientometrics.
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Science and Policy
Depositing User:	Dr. Slobodan Perovic
Date Deposited:	30 Apr 2018 00:39
Last Modified:	30 Apr 2018 00:39
Item ID:	14601
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1080/02691728.2018.1466933
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics General Issues > Science and Policy
Date:	28 April 2018
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14601

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