Organizational Culture as a Source of High Reliability

California Management Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 112-127

  Weick, Karl E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968080940     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41165243     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. C. Perrow, Normal Accidents (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984).
2. W. Buckley, “Society as a Complex Adaptive System,” in W. Buckley, ed., Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist (Chicago, IL: Aldine, 1968), pp. 490–513.
3. K. E. Weick, “A Stress Analysis of Future Battlefields,” in J. G. Hunt and J. D. Blair, eds., Leadership on the Future Battlefield (Washington, D.C.: Pergamon, 1985), pp. 32–46.
4. R. Hurst, “Portents and Challenges,” in R. Hurst and L. R. Hurst, eds., Pilot Error: The Human Factors, 2nd Ed. (New York, NY: Aronson, 1982), p. 175.
5. R. L. Daft and R. H. Lengel, “Information Richness: A New Approach to Manager Information Processing and Organization Design,” in B. Staw and L. L Cummings, eds., Research in Organizational Behavior: Vol. 6 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1984), pp. 191–233.
6. R. J. Smith, “Shuttle Inquiry Focuses on Weather, Rubber Seals, and Unheeded Advice,” Science, 231 (1986): 909.
7. N. W. Biggart and G. G. Hamilton, “The Power of Obedience,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 28 (1984): 540–549.
8. E. L. Wiener, “Mid-Air Collisions: The Accidents, the Systems, and the Realpolitik,” in R. Hurst and L. R. Hurst, eds., Pilot Error: The Human Factors, 2nd Ed. (New York, NY: Aronson, 1982), pp. 101–117.
9. D. T. Campbell, “Conformity in Psychology’s Theories of Acquired Behavioral Dispositions,” in I. A. Berg and B. M. Bass, eds., Conformity and Deviation (New York, NY: Harper, 1961), p. 123.
10. J. D. Jones, “Nobody Asked Me, But…,” United States Naval Institute Proceedings, November 1977, p. 87.
11. D. T. Campbell, “Ethnocentric and Other Altruistic Motives,” in D. Levine, ed., Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1965 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska), pp. 2283–2311.
12. H. Petroski, To Engineer Is Human (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1985).
13. J. Gall, Systematics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail (New York, NY: New York Times Book Co., 1977), pp. 32–33.
14. M. Allnutt, “Human Factors: Basic Principles,” in R. Hurst and L. R. Hurst, eds., Pilot Errors: The Human Factors, 2nd Ed. (New York, NY: Aronson, 1982), pp. 14–15.
15. J. M. Finkelman and C. Kirschner, “An Information-Processing Interpretation of Air Traffic Control Stress,” Human Factors, 22 (1980): 561.
16. M. D. Cohen, J. G. March, and J. P. Olsen, “People, Problems, Solutions, and the Ambiguity of Relevance,” in J. G. March and J. P. Olsen, eds., Ambiguity and Choice in Organizations (Bergen, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1976), p. 25.
17. M. L. Tushman and E. Romanelli, “Organizational Evolution: A Metamorphosis Model of Convergence and Reorientation,” in L. L. Cummings and B. M. Staw, eds., Research in Organizational Behavior: Vol. 7 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1985), pp. 196, 209–212.
18. C. Perrow, “The Bureaucratic Paradox: The Efficient Organization Centralizes in Order to Decentralize,” Organizational Dynamics, 5/4 (1977): 3–14.
19. H. Kaufman, The Forest Ranger (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1967).
20. P. Selznick, Leadership in Administration (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1957).
21. K. E. Weick and L. B. Browning, “Argument and Narration in Organizational Communication,” Journal of Management, 12 (1986): 243–259.
22. R. L. Daft and J. Wiginton, “Language and Organizations,” Academy of Management Review, 4 (1979): 179–191.
23. N. M. Morris and W. B. Rouse, “Review and Evaluation of Empirical Research in Troubleshooting,” Human Factors, 27(1985): 503–530.
24. M. H. Brown, “That Reminds Me of a Story: Speech Action in Organizational Socialization,” Western Journal of Speech Communication, 49 (1985): 27–42.
25. P. A. Anderson, “Decision Making by Objection and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Administrative Science Quarterly, 28 (1983): 211–212.