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Organization at the limit : lessons from the Columbia disaster / edited by William H. Starbuck and Moshe Farjoun.
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English
Published/Created
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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xix, 387 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA)
TL867 .O74 2005
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Subject(s)
Corporate culture
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United States
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Case studies
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Organizational behavior
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United States
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Case studies
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Columbia (Spacecraft)
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Accidents
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United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Starbuck, William H., 1934-
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Farjoun, Moshe
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : organizational aspects of the Columbia disaster ; Synopsis : NASA, the CAIB report, and the Columbia disaster / Moshe Farjoun and William H. Starbuck
History and policy at the space shuttle program / Moshe Farjoun
System effects : on slippery slopes, repeating negative patterns, and learning from mistake? / Diane Vaughan
Organizational learning and action in the midst of safety drift : revisiting the space shuttle program's recent history / Moshe Farjoun
The space between in space transportation : a relational analysis of the failure of STS-107 / Karlene H. Roberts, Peter M. Madsen, and Vinit M. Desai
The opacity of risk : language and the culture of safety in NASA's space shuttle program / William Ocasio
Coping with temporal uncertainty : when rigid, ambitious deadlines don't make sense / Sally Blount, Mary J. Waller, and Sophie Leroy
Attention to production schedule and safety as determinants of risk-taking in NASA's decision to launch the Columbia shuttle / Angela Bulijan and Zur Shapira
Making sense of blurred images : mindful organizing in mission STS-107 / Karl E. Weick
The price of progress : structurally incuded inaction / Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey C. Connor
Data indeterminancy : one NASA, two modes / Roger Dunbar and Raghu Garud
The recovery window : organizational learning following ambiguous threats / Amy C. Edmondson [and others]
Barriers to the interpretation and diffusion of information about potential problems in organizations : lessons from the space shuttle Columbia / Frances J. Milliken, Theresa K. Lant, and Ebony N. Bridwell-Mitchell
Systems approaches to safety : NASA and the space shuttle disasters / Nancy Leveson [and others]
Creating foresight : lessons for enhancing resilience from Columbia / David D. Woods
Making NASA more effective / William H. Starbuck and Johnny Stephenson
Observations on the Columbia accident / Henry McDonald
Lessons from the Columbia disaster / Moshe Farjoun and William H. Starbuck.
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ISBN
140513108X ((hardcover))
9781405131087 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2005006597
OCLC
58451736
International Article Number
9781405131087
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