Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology

这是一篇博士论文研究，将研究高能物理中组织间项目团队的形成和管理。向团队科学的转变始于二战后的高能物理学。在20世纪50年代和60年代，实验是由单个机构的物理学家小组进行的。如今，由180-200名科学家组成的团队在几个机构中很常见。该研究将检验，除其他事项外，研究团队如何选择目标和成员，以最大限度地提高团队绩效，以及团队领导者在创建目标，团队成员和赞助组织之间的最佳匹配方面的作用。该研究将利用对高能物理学家的访谈，了解他们参与特定实验的情况，并使用从1974年至今进行的所有高能物理实验数据库中的数据来估计团队绩效的差异。这项研究将有助于增加关于合作的文献和促进科学家之间成功合作的过程。

This is a doctoral dissertation study which will investigate the formation and management of interorganizational project teams in high energy physics. The shift to team science began in high energy physics after World War II. In the 1950's and 1960's, experiments were performed by small single-institution group of physicists. Today groups of 180-200 scientists at several institutions are common. The study will examine, among other things, how a research team selects goal and membership to maximize the team performance, and what the role of the team leaders is in creating the optimum fit between goal, team membership, and the sponsoring organization. The study will utilize interviews with high energy physicists about their participation in a particular experiment, and data from a database on all high energy physics experiments conducted from 1974 to the present will be used to estimate variance in team performance. This study will contribute to a growing literature on collaboration and the processes facilitating successful collaboration between scientists.