Organization at the limit : lessons from the Columbia disaster / edited by William H. Starbuck and Moshe Farjoun.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.