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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at Nasa |
Author: Vaughan, Diane:
ISBN: 0226851761
Description: University of Chicago Press 1997 1997 100 g; 576 pages, last page blank, includes a chapter notes, bibliography, index. There is a section of supporting charts and documents of approximately 20 pages, otherwise internally the book is unillustrated. Colour illustrated paperback binding. The book shows no signs of damage. "This empirically fine-grained and theoretically deep case study of the Challenger space shuttle disaster brings a new sociological understanding of how the unintended consequences of purposive action in organisations derive from the normalisation of deviance. A remarkable and important analysis of how social structures induce consequential areas of decision." Robert K. Merton, Columbia University investigation -- Science
Book Number: 0218138
Keywords: CHALLENGER SPACECRAFT DECISION MAKING ORGANIZATIONAL
Price: $18.00 (AUD) |
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