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The Challenger launch decision: risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA

Vaughan, Diane.

Year: 1996.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

One The Eve of the Launch

Two Learning Culture, Revising History

Three Risk, Work Group Culture, and the Normalization of Deviance

Four The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984

Five The Normalization of Deviance, 1985

Six The Culture of Production

Seven Structural Secrecy

Eight The Eve of the Launch Revisited

Nine Conformity and Tragedy

Ten Lessons Learned

Appendix A. Cost/Safety Trade-Offs? Scrapping the Escape Rockets and the SRB Contract Award Decision

Appendix B. Supporting Charts and Documents

Appendix C. On Theory Elaboration, Organizations, and Historical Ethnography

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

The Challenger launch decision : risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA Diane Vaughan.

Author:

Vaughan, Diane

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The Challenger launch decision : risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA Diane Vaughan.
Vaughan, Diane
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Subject Headings:

• United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Management
• Challenger (Spacecraft) -- Accidents
• Aerospace industries -- United States
• Organizational behavior -- Case studies
• Decision-making -- Case studies

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