The Challenger Launch Decision
Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
Vaughan, Diane
Contents:
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
ONE - The Eve of the Launch
TWO - Learning Culture, Revising History
THREE - Risk, Work Group Culture, and the Normalization of Deviance
FOUR - The Normalization of Deviance, 1981-1984
FIVE - The Normalization of Deviance, 1985
SIX - The Culture of Production
SEVEN - Structural Secrecy
EIGHT - The Eve of the Launch Revisited
NINE - Conformity And Tragedy
TEN - 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
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA sheds light on why NASA managers went ahead with the Challenger launch when, in retrospect, there was overwhelming evidence of the undue danger of doing so ... Drawing on that untapped wealth of information, Ms. Vaughan was able to retrace what happened not only on the eve of the launch, but also years before."
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Softcover
575 Seiten / pages
some technical drawings and documents
very good condition
Chicago - 1996 - The University of Chicago Press
Art.Nr. 25727
