Massagli oversaw the collection and initial analysis of the survey data. Harvey Brooks, Lewis Branscomb, and Michelle Gittleman provided helpful comments. 2 ABSTRAC T The reasons why profit-seeking enterprises undertake to "do" science have captured the attention of sociologists, organizational theorists, and economists. This article argues that scientific research organizations arrange themsel...

Over the past decade, I have performed several field studies with scientists developing software either on their own or together with software engineers. Based on these field study data, I identify a model of scientific software development as practiced in many scientific laboratories and communities. This model does not fit the standard software engineering models. For example, the tasks of re...

Collaboratories refer to laboratories where scientists can work together while they are in distant locations from each other and from key equipment. They have captured the interest both of CSCW researchers and of science funders who wish to optimize the use of rare scientific equipment and expertise. We examine the kind of CSCW conceptions that help us best understand the character of working r...