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Organizational learning activities in high hazard industries : the logics underlying self-analysis

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  • Carroll, John S., 1948-

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Cover title. "A version of this paper was presented under the title "Failures to Learn from Experience: An Analysis of Incident Reviews in Nuclear Power Plants and Chemical Process Plants" in the Symposium "High States Learning: Making Sense of Unusual, High-Hazard Events" at the Academy of Management meetings, Cincinnati, August, 1996."--p. 33.

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  • Carroll, John S., 1948-, 1997. "Organizational learning activities in high hazard industries : the logics underlying self-analysis," Working papers WP 3936-97., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
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