The Vulnerable System: An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster

Journal of Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 571-593

  Weick, Karl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84970693246     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014920639001600304     Document Type: Article

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