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13 July 2026

  • curprev 05:1705:17, 13 July 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 1,986 bytes +1,986 decision — the moment when someone chose to proceed despite known risks. After Vaughan, accident analysis focused on the drift — the gradual, collective, and often invisible erosion of safety margins that makes the bad decision seem not bad at all. == Methodological Contribution == Vaughan's work exemplifies what sociologists call '''ethnographic institutional analysis''': the close, empirical study of how organizations actually work, as opposed to how they claim to work or how managers bel...