Justification and Interlaced Knowledge at ATLAS, CERN

The authors thank the many scientists at ATLAS, CERN, who generously contributed their time. In particular, they thank Marzio Nessi and Markus Nordberg of CERN. They also thank many members of the academic community who offered their comments on earlier drafts of this paper, including Terry Amburgey, Carliss Baldwin, Hans Berends, Paul David, Oliver Gassmann, Barbara Gray, Stefan Haefliger, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Andrea Prencipe, Lori Rosenkopf, Francesco Rullani, Kannan Srikanth, Mary Tripsas, and Georg von Krogh. This paper was presented at various forums including the 2012 Academy of Management Annual Meetings, DRUID Society Conference 2012, 2012 Annual Conference of the Industry Studies Association, the Wharton Technology and Innovation Conference, and the Tilburg Center for Innovation Research Conference on Innovation 2012. The authors thank the participants at these conferences for their questions and comments. They also thank Phanish Puranam and anonymous reviewers at Organization Science for their critical and helpful comments on previous versions of this paper. This research was partly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation [Grant PBSG1-111192] and the U.S. National Science Foundation [Award 0738165].