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The Challenger launch decision: risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA
Diane Vaughan
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
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Preface (page xi)
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One The Eve of the Launch (page 1)
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Two Learning Culture, Revising History (page 33)
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Three Risk, Work Group Culture, and the Normalization of Deviance (page 77)
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Four The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984 (page 119)
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Five The Normalization of Deviance, 1985 (page 153)
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Six The Culture of Production (page 196)
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Seven Structural Secrecy (page 238)
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Eight The Eve of the Launch Revisited (page 278)
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Nine Conformity and Tragedy (page 334)
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Ten Lessons Learned (page 387)
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Appendix A. Cost/Safety Trade-Offs? Scrapping the Escape Rockets and the SRB Contract Award Decision (page 423)
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Appendix B. Supporting Charts and Documents (page 432)
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Appendix C. On Theory Elaboration, Organizations, and Historical Ethnography (page 456)
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Acknowledgments (page 465)
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Notes (page 469)
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Bibliography (page 533)
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Index (page 551)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AJS | 103.3 (Nov. 1997): 769-772 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28199711%29103%3A3%3C769%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
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Published: 1996
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
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- 9780226851754 (hardcover)
- 9780226346960 (ebook)