Research Catalog

Title

Apollo, Challenger, Columbia--the decline of the space program : a study in organizational communication / by Phillip K. Tompkins with the assistance of Emily V. Tompkins.

Author

Tompkins, Phillip K.

Publication

Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub. Co., 2004.

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Additional Authors

Tompkins, Emily V.

Description

xxv, 288 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Phillip K. Tompkins' book provides unparalleled longitudinal insight into the organizational successes and failures of NASA. In focusing on organizations in trouble, Tompkins identifies ten "communication transgressions."

Subject

• Challenger (Spacecraft) > Accidents
• Columbia (Spacecraft) > Accidents
• Project Apollo (U.S.)
• Space vehicle accidents > United States > Case studies
• Communication in organizations > United States > Case studies
• Corporate culture > United States > Case studies
• Organizational behavior > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Columbia accident -- The week following: Debris, data, and fault trees -- Culture and communication in NASA -- Communication and culture in the Marshall Space Flight Center -- The Challenger accident -- The mysteries of Columbia continue -- Reading the CAIB report: echoes of Challenger and a cultural fence -- The Challenger syndrome and the decline of American organizations and institutions: 'Speaking truth to power' -- Chicken Little, the ostrich, and Spiderman -- Cast of characters.

ISBN

1931719322

LCCN

^^2003022468

OCLC

• 53231217
• SCSB-12009509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library