Challenger: A Major Malfunction <i>by Malcolm McConnell</i> (Simon and Schuster, London, 1987) pp. xv + 269, ISBN 0-671-65439-X

van Gigch, John P.

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Challenger: A Major Malfunction by Malcolm McConnell (Simon and Schuster, London, 1987) pp. xv + 269, ISBN 0-671-65439-X

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Author(s): John P. van Gigch ^a

Publication date (Print): December 1988

Journal: Prometheus

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): December 1988

Volume: 6

Issue: 2

Pages: 409-413

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^a California State University , Sacramento , CA , 95819 , USA

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Publisher ID: 8629326 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1988: pp. 409–413

DOI: 10.1080/08109028808629326

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See also US Presidential Commission, Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Washington, DC, June 1986, and J.P. van Gigch, Decision Making about Decision Making: Metamodels and Metasystems, Abacus Press, Tunbridge Wells, 1987.
See C. Perrow, Normal Accidents, Living with High Risk Technologies, Basic Books, New York, 1984 and J.P. van Gigch, J.A. Borghino, J.F. Le Moigne, A.R. Logan and V. Vervilos, ‘A Metasystematic View of a Disaster: Example of the Space Shuttle Challenger Failure’, Human Systems Management, 7, 259-64, 1988.
US Presidential Commission, op. cit.

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[1] See also US Presidential Commission, Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Washington, DC, June 1986, and J.P. van Gigch, Decision Making about Decision Making: Metamodels and Metasystems, Abacus Press, Tunbridge Wells, 1987.

[2] See C. Perrow, Normal Accidents, Living with High Risk Technologies, Basic Books, New York, 1984 and J.P. van Gigch, J.A. Borghino, J.F. Le Moigne, A.R. Logan and V. Vervilos, ‘A Metasystematic View of a Disaster: Example of the Space Shuttle Challenger Failure’, Human Systems Management, 7, 259-64, 1988.

[3] US Presidential Commission, op. cit.