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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA.
Abstract
he Eve of the Launch Learning Culture, Revising History Risk, Work Group Culture, and the Norma lization of Deviance The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984 The Normalization of Deviance, 19856: The Culture of Production St ructural Secrecy The Eve of the Launch Revisited Conformity and Tragedy Lessons Learned Appendix A Cost/Safety Trade-Offs? Scra pping the Escape Rockets and the SRB Contract Award Decision. Appendix B Supporting Charts and Documents Appendix C On Theory Elaboration, Organizations, and Historical Ethnography.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rosa, E. A., & Vaughan, D.
- Venue
- Social Forces
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1997-06
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1491
- ISSN
- 0037-7732 (ISSN-L)
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- W2054129954
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- 71.51
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- closed
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