Repeated failures in the management of high risk technologies

European Management Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-117

  Heimann, C F Larry ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenger; Columbia; Cycles of failure; High reliability theory; NASA; Normal accidents; Normalization of deviance; Organizational mistakes; Repeated failure; Type I errors; Type II errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844256477     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2004.12.015     Document Type: Article

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