The emergence of a new international competitor in the commercial aircraft sector The China syndrome.docVIP

?Close preview??|?? Purchase PDF (149 K) ??|?? Related articles??|??Related reference work articles???? AbstractAbstract | Figures/TablesFigures/Tables | ReferencesReferences Abstract This paper examines Chinas emerging industrial and international trade potential within the commercial aerospace sector. Decades of industrial offset agreements between Western aerospace companies and Chinese subcontractors have endowed China with the technological fundamentals required to build commercial passenger jets. These offset agreements were designed to secure sales of Western-built aircraft to China, and often involved critical streams of knowledge transfer from prime contractors to Chinese suppliers. By now, China has acquired virtually all of the technological know-how to enter the commercial aircraft market on an internationally competitive basis. The implications for Western producers are presumably not bright, as Chinas unit costs are extraordinarily low. Further, it is clear that Chinas first regional jet has been designed to lead to a replacement for the Boeing 737. Looking to the future, I contend that China will challenge Airbus and Boeing in the market for medium-to-large passenger jets by the mid-2020s. Can European Manufacturing Companies Compete?: Industrial Competitiveness, Employment and Growth in Europe??Original Research ArticleEuropean Management Journal A primary purpose in measuring safety is to develop intervention strategies to avoid future accidents. Recognizing signals before an accident occurs offers the potential for improving safety, and many organizations have sought to develop programs to identify and benefit from alerts, signals and prior indicators. In this paper, we address the challenge of identifying and evaluating leading indicators of safety in virtual organizations–organizations comprised of multiple, distributed members, temporarily linked together for competitive advantage, that share common value chains and business processes su