Celebrating a citation classic - And more: Symposium on Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents

Organization and Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 229-234

  Rosa, Eugene A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; High reliability organizations; Normal accidents; Psychological reductionism; Sociology of risk; Theory development

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT;

EID: 20444394384     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026604270873     Document Type: Article

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