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Author:

Mahler, Julianne.

Title:

Organizational learning at NASA : the Challenger and Columbia accidents / Julianne G. Mahler ; with Maureen Hogan Casamayou.

Publisher:

Georgetown University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Reorganization.
Organizational learning--United States.
Organizational change--United States.
Columbia (Spacecraft)--Accidents.
Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents.

Other Authors:

Casamayou, Maureen Hogan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index.

Contents:

Part I. Recognizing the value of organizational learning : Uncanny similarities: the Challenger and Columbia accidents -- Identifying organizational learning -- Part II. Analyzing the causes of the shuttle accidents : Structures for processing information -- Contractor relations -- Political and budgetary pressures -- Organizational culture -- Part III. Institutionalizing lessons about public organizational learning : The challenges of learning in public organizations -- Lessons from NASA about organizational learning.

Series:

Public management and change series

ISBN:

1589012666 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781589012660 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)234435139

LCCN:

2008033982

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)