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Borpujari, R. (2025). Adaptive Secrecy in the Making of the Atomic Bomb: Toward a Process View of Secretive Innovation. Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.17687
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🎙️ Welcome to “Revise and Resubmit” — the podcast where ideas evolve, research gets a second life, and the world of academia finds its rhythm again! 🌍✨
Today, we’re diving into a story wrapped in silence, ambition, and atomic brilliance — a story that changed the world, one guarded secret at a time.
💥 The paper we’re exploring is titled “Adaptive Secrecy in the Making of the Atomic Bomb: Toward a Process View of Secretive Innovation”, authored by Rohin Borpujari and published in the prestigious Organization Science — yes, you heard it right — an FT50 journal, powered by INFORMS. 🏛️📚
In this thought-provoking study, Borpujari takes us back to the Manhattan Project — a time when scientists, soldiers, and statesmen worked in the shadows, balancing knowledge creation with the peril of exposure. What happens when innovation itself becomes a secret weapon? 🔐
Through the lens of adaptive secrecy, we witness how the boundaries between sharing and concealing knowledge aren’t fixed — they shift like sand dunes under wartime winds. The paper uncovers three types of uncertainty — evaluative, boundary, and performance — and shows how organizations use adaptive disclosures to navigate them: sometimes revealing a little, sometimes hiding even that revelation.
In a world obsessed with transparency, this paper makes us ask: maybe secrecy isn’t the enemy of innovation... maybe it’s the silent architect of it? 🤔
So, as we unpack how secrecy adapts, evolves, and sometimes saves innovation itself, let’s pause and wonder —
💭 What if the world’s greatest discoveries were born not in light... but in the disciplined darkness of secrecy?
🙏 Special thanks to Rohin Borpujari for this remarkable contribution and to INFORMS for publishing it in Organization Science, one of academia’s most respected FT50 journals.
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Stay curious. Stay inspired. And remember — sometimes, even knowledge wears a cloak. 🕵️♂️✨
