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An edition of Drift into failure (2010)

Drift into failure

from hunting broken components to understanding complex systems

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  • 4 Want to read

"What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale." (More from publisher)

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Ashgate
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Subjects

Social systems, System failures (Engineering), Social aspects, Complex organizations, Complexity (Philosophy), Failure (Psychology), System theory, chaos theory, Complexity (philosophy), Causation, System failures (engineering), Cognitive psychology

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Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Drift into Failure
Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
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Drift into failure: from hunting broken components to understanding complex systems
2010, Ashgate
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Table of Contents

Failure is always an option
Features of drift
The legacy of Newton and Descartes
The search for the broken component
Theorizing drift
What is complexity and systems thinking?
Managing the complexity of drift.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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Farnham, Burlington, VT

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Dewey Decimal Class
302.3/5
Library of Congress
HM701 .D45 2010, Q295, HM701 .D45 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL24524886M
Internet Archive
driftintofailure00dekk
ISBN 13
9781409422228, 9781409422211, 9781409422235
LCCN
2010034296
OCLC/WorldCat
656556703

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