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From cold fusion to cold storage: A comparative case study of how organizational champions caused two scientific megaprojects to fail

Anthony LarssonKarolinska Institute, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Stockholm, Sweden;Stockholm School of Economics Institute of Research (SIR), Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 57-79 | Published online: 06 Jan 2020

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