Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the performance of the American space program and NASA's organizational culture. He begins by identifying the beliefs, norms, and practices that guided NASA's early successes. Originally, the agency was dominated by the strong technical culture rooted in the research-and-development organizations from which NASA…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8018-4975-6
- EAN: 9780801849756
- Produktnummer: 8424578
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.9 cm 329 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 329
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs at the American University. He is the author of The Space Station Decision: Incremental Politics and Technical Choice, also available from Johns Hopkins.
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