Organizational structures built for simple technologies become dangerous for complex ones

Evidence

The TVA was not at all up for the task of building nuclear plants. The organizational structure had not changed in 50 years, but the hazardous technology it operated certainly had. Dams and steam plants in the early decades could be built in a hurry, with high levels of discretion among engineers on the site. The complexity of nuclear plant construction required much more time, intense cooperation between offices, and strict compliance with external regulation. The TVA’s historically grown inability to meet such requirements made the construction of nuclear plants an inefficient, ineffective and plainly unsafe affair. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 275

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the same decentralization that made public-works dams cheap and fast made nuclear reactors lethal — competence as a trap.
• QUESTION: Is this a general law of institutions adopting more hazardous technologies than their structures can bear (cf. Challenger, Deepwater Horizon)?