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Collisions and collaboration : the organization of learning in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC /

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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest scientific experiment involving 3000 scientists. Here a team of organisation theorists collaborate with leading figures at CERN to understand how this project has been organised and what lessons can be learnt for the management of major p...

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Other Authors: Boisot, Max
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) > Experiments > Evaluation.
Organizational effectiveness.
Grand collisionneur de hadrons (France et Suisse) > Expériences > Évaluation.
Efficacité organisationnelle.
SCIENCE > Physics > Nuclear.
Organizational effectiveness
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest scientific experiment involving 3000 scientists. Here a team of organisation theorists collaborate with leading figures at CERN to understand how this project has been organised and what lessons can be learnt for the management of major projects and 'big science'.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 315 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0191728942
9780191728945
9780191618307
0191618306