Focusing on competitive dynamics, this study examines the strategic issues Boeing has faced in seeking to maintain its leading position in the airline industry. Boeing's status as a first mover in the aerospace industry has made it a world-leading company; however, the external environment and...

This paper develops a multi-agent dynamic model of the commercial aircraft industry and then uses that model to analyze industry pricing, industry performance, and optimal industry policy. In the model, firms are differentiated in their products and cost structure, and entry, exit, prices, and...

Many scholars underline the significance of clusters for knowledge spillovers and related benefits in terms of innovation and firm competitiveness. The Industry 4.0 technological scenario emphasizes dispersed technologically interconnected activities and distributed knowledge management...

It is important for the Government to keep the market in check and to maintain a standard of conduct where it promotes a healthy competition between all the players in the market. It is here where the Competition Commission of India (CCI) comes into play as the major regulator who lays down the...

The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss empirically about the effects of asymmetries between Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) on the performance of these companies in an alliance. We address both direct effects and indirect ones related...

Our work aims at understanding the role played by the innovative supply chain strategy put in place by Boeing in the numerous problems encountered by its 787 Dreamliner program. We will first describe and explain the major changes that were introduced in the aircraft's supply chain, more...

Purpose: The aerospace supply chain is characterized by a high degree of small andmedium-sized suppliers. To stay competitive, suppliers are facing high pressures todigitalize their business but have limited resources available. Furthermore, aerospacesuppliers lack a framework to measure their...

This paper presents an adapted agent-based model for the diffusion of new aircraft model series. Expanding on the classical economic decision framework, where investment decision-making is entirely based on profitability, our holistic modeling approach takes into account profitability,...

Chapter 1. The Globalization and Evolution of the Aviation Industry -- Chapter 2. Aircraft Variants and Manufacturing Specifications -- Chapter 3. Aircraft Financial and Operational Efficiencies -- Chapter 4. The Foundation and Economics of Aircraft Valuation -- Chapter 5. A Step-By-Step...

We consider the problem of minimizing the number of airplanes needed to fly a fixed daily repeating schedule of flights. We use deficit functions (DF) to decompose an aviation schedule of aircraft flights into aircraft chains (routes) called a chain decomposition. Each chain visits periodically...

Not only with respect to the common overlaps within the market of urban air mobility, but also in terms of their requirement profile with regard to the systemic core, all mobility industries are converging. This article focuses on the required patterns of learning in order to cope with these...

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Structural changes of the Chinese economy: from the New Dream to Covid19 -- Chapter 2 Can China be less dependent on exports? -- Chapter 3 Chinese innovation capacity: state of the art of the leading edge -- Chapter 4 Chinese diplomacy, strategic partnerships and global...

The Future of Mobility: Trends That Will Shape the Mobility and Aviation Industry in the Future -- Fundamentals and Structure of Aviation Systems -- The Environment of Aviation -- From the Aviation Value Chain to the Aviation System -- Airline Strategy - From Network Management to Business...

Large infrastructure projects generally involve multiple stakeholders such as government parties, local communities, and private organizations. New projects can create tensions between different stakeholder groups because different groups naturally have different interests and opinions. This...