The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
by Diane Vaughan
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Author: Diane VaughanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-15
ISBN: 0226851761
Number of pages: 592
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Reviews of The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
Book Review: Excellent review of organizational theory of risky decisions
Summary: 4 Stars
This book reviews in great detail the processes that went into
(and predated) the decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger.
It takes a potentially "new" view of this decision, namely
outlining how the problem wasn't 'a few bad managers willing
to explicitly sacrifice safety for the sake of getting this
particular shuttle off the pad' {my words}. Instead, the
problem was an entire culture, at NASA, at Morton Thiokol, and
in the country as a whole, that emphasized the production
schedule, normalized deviance (i.e. rationalized the aberrant
behavior of the O-rings in the joints of the booster), and
constructed the "risk assessment" to suit a wide variety of needs.
This book will join the shelf with a very few other works on
decision making in high-hazard environments, particularly Perrow's
NORMAL ACCIDENTS, and Scott Sagan's LIMITS OF SAFETY.
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