Integrating his experience with NASA with more recently gathered data, the author provides an account of the rise, fall and resurgence of that American institution over a 25-year period. The book offers a case-study approach and methodological model of how organizations can be studied over time.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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b&w photographs and diagram, references
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978-0-935732-40-5 (9780935732405)
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The "Challenger" accident; the imperative of studying organizational communication; the Marshall Space Center and the Apollo programme; some problems of communication at the Marshall Center; staff and board briefing; reorganizing the Marshall Center; a reading of the Rogers Commission report; Feynman's two experiments; Huntsville revisited; the Lucas era at MSFC; organizational forgetting; death and rebirth; J.R. Thompson's response; the meaning and future of the space programme. Appendices: a summary of the Tompkins-Anderson study of Kent State University; questions and exercises for discussion, essays and class projects.
