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Genre/Form: | Case Reports Case studies |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Diane Vaughan |
ISBN: | 0226851753 9780226851754 0226851761 9780226851761 |
OCLC Number: | 33166669 |
Awards: | Winner of Society for Social Studies of Science: Rachel Carson Prize 1997 |
Description: | xv, 575 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. The Eve of the Launch -- 2. Learning Culture, Revising History -- 3. Risk, Work Group Culture, and the Normalization of Deviance -- 4. The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984 -- 5. The Normalization of Deviance, 1985 -- 6. The Culture of Production -- 7. Structural Secrecy -- 8. The Eve of the Launch Revisited -- 9. Conformity and Tragedy -- 10. 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. |
Responsibility: | Diane Vaughan. |
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Abstract:
This work seeks to explain why the Challenger tragedy must be re-examined and offers a warning about the hidden hazards of living in this technological age.
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