Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : organizational aspects of the Columbia disaster ; Synopsis : NASA, the CAIB report, and the Columbia disaster / Moshe Farjoun and William H. Starbuck
  • History and policy at the space shuttle program / Moshe Farjoun
  • System effects : on slippery slopes, repeating negative patterns, and learning from mistake? / Diane Vaughan
  • Organizational learning and action in the midst of safety drift : revisiting the space shuttle program's recent history / Moshe Farjoun
  • The space between in space transportation : a relational analysis of the failure of STS-107 / Karlene H. Roberts, Peter M. Madsen, and Vinit M. Desai
  • The opacity of risk : language and the culture of safety in NASA's space shuttle program / William Ocasio
  • Coping with temporal uncertainty : when rigid, ambitious deadlines don't make sense / Sally Blount, Mary J. Waller, and Sophie Leroy
  • Attention to production schedule and safety as determinants of risk-taking in NASA's decision to launch the Columbia shuttle / Angela Bulijan and Zur Shapira
  • Making sense of blurred images : mindful organizing in mission STS-107 / Karl E. Weick
  • The price of progress : structurally incuded inaction / Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey C. Connor
  • Data indeterminancy : one NASA, two modes / Roger Dunbar and Raghu Garud
  • The recovery window : organizational learning following ambiguous threats / Amy C. Edmondson ... [et al.]
  • Barriers to the interpretation and diffusion of information about potential problems in organizations : lessons from the space shuttle Columbia / Frances J. Milliken, Theresa K. Lant, and Ebony N. Bridwell-Mitchell
  • Systems approaches to safety : NASA and the space shuttle disasters / Nancy Leveson ... [et al.]
  • Creating foresight : lessons for enhancing resilience from Columbia / David D. Woods
  • Making NASA more effective / William H. Starbuck and Johnny Stephenson
  • Observations on the Columbia accident / Henry McDonald
  • Lessons from the Columbia disaster / Moshe Farjoun and William H. Starbuck.