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Author Mahler, Julianne.

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

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2009.

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Description xiii, 238 p. : ill.
Series Public management and change series
Public management and change.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Reorganization.
Columbia (Spacecraft) -- Accidents.
Challenger (Spacecraft) -- Accidents.
Organizational learning -- United States.
Organizational change -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Casamayou, Maureen Hogan.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781589012660 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1589012666 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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