Group Decision Fiascoes Continue: Space Shuttle Challenger and a Revised Groupthink Framework
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Relations
- Vol. 44 (6) , 539-550
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872679104400601
Abstract
This paper reviews the decision situation surrounding the decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986 in the light of the groupthink hypothesis. A revised framework is presented that proposes time and leadership style as moderators of the manner in which group characteristics lead to groupthink symptoms.Keywords
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