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Mahler, Julianne G.

 
9781589012660: Organizational Learning at NASA: The Columbia and Challenger Accidents
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1589012666 ISBN 13 : 9781589012660
Editeur : Georgetown University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation found chilling similarities between the two accidents, leading the Columbia Accident Investigation Board to conclude that NASA failed to learn from its earlier tragedy.

Despite the frequency with which organizations are encouraged to adopt learning practices, organizational learning-especially in public organizations--is not well understood and deserves to be studied in more detail. This book fills that gap with a thorough examination of NASA's loss of the two shuttles. After offering an account of the processes that constitute organizational learning, Julianne G. Mahler focuses on what NASA did to address problems revealed by Challenger and its uneven efforts to institutionalize its own findings. She also suggests factors overlooked by both accident commissions and proposes broadly applicable hypotheses about learning in public organizations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Julianne G. Mahler is an associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University.

Maureen Hogan Casamayou is a former research fellow and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and she has taught at Georgetown University, Mount Vernon College, and George Mason University.

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Éditeur
Georgetown University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1589012666
ISBN 13 
9781589012660
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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