Professor Diane Vaughan Featured in The Atlantic

Columbia University Professor of Sociology,Diane Vaughan, was featured in an article by The Atlantic  for her research in the normalization of deviance in organizations and corporations. Vaughan's research on the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster highlights  how the normalization of deviance in organizations allows there to be larger and larger breeches of ethical practice over time. By slowly diminishing ethical standards to accommodate profit, organizations eventually risk their reputation and the safety of others.