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Formation and expansion of a new organizational field in experimental science

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This paper examines the formation and expansion of a new organizational field in experimental science: synchrotron radiation laboratories. These labs were once peripheral servants of some specialisms of solid-state physics, but over the 40 years studied they have grown into a worldwide generic resource for tens of thousands of users in a broad spectrum of disciplines. The paper uses insights primarily from historical institutionalism, but also neo-institutional theory, to analyze the formation and expansion of the organizational field of synchrotron radiation laboratories, and thus contributes to the analysis of the rather dramatic growth of this tool for experimental science from a small-scale lab curiosity to a generic research technology. But the key contribution of the paper is to provide insights into multi-level and multi-dimensional change in science systems by analyzing the emergence and expansion of a new organizational field in experimental science, which has implications not least for science policy.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

841-854

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Science and Public Policy

Volym

42

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • History

Nyckelord

  • synchrotron radiation laboratories
  • organizational fields
  • generic research technologies

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1471-5430