When things go wrong: Failures as the flip side of successes

Errors in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 225-244

  Hollnagel, Erik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

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