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Normal Accident Theory As Frame, Link, and Provocation

Karl E. Weick

University of Michigan

In this article, the author offers suggestions as to why Normal Accidents, and the theory it formed, continues to provoke. By placing a meaningful frame around flows of events, normal accident theory allows people to better grasp and analyze the complexity of technological organizations as they face the unexpected.

Key Words: normal accident theory • interactive complexity • contingency • high reliability

Organization & Environment, Vol. 17, No. 1, 27-31 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1086026603262031
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