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Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing-along with the normal aging process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole-gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength.

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McCurdy is surely on the right track. His valuable book makes the literature on organizational cultures accessible and reveals new ways to look at high-technology agencies. Nature

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: NASA's Organizational Culture
1. Building Blocks
2. Root Assumptions
3. Breaking Barriers
4. Becoming Conventional
5. Losing the Technical Culture
Conclusion: Governmental Performance and Cultural Instability
Appendix: NASA Culture Survey
Essays on Sources
Notes
Index

Inside NASA

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 27 October 1994
      ISBN-13 9780801849756
      978-0801849756
      ISBN-10 0801849756

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Changes imposed to accomplish the lunar landing-along with the normal aging process and increased bureaucracy in the government as a whole-gradually eroded NASA's original culture and reduced its technical strength.

      Trade Review
      McCurdy is surely on the right track. His valuable book makes the literature on organizational cultures accessible and reveals new ways to look at high-technology agencies. Nature

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: NASA's Organizational Culture
      1. Building Blocks
      2. Root Assumptions
      3. Breaking Barriers
      4. Becoming Conventional
      5. Losing the Technical Culture
      Conclusion: Governmental Performance and Cultural Instability
      Appendix: NASA Culture Survey
      Essays on Sources
      Notes
      Index

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