Strategic Management in Aviation

Thomas C. Lawton is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Imperial College, UK. He is also a management consultant and author of Cleared for Take-Off (Ashgate, 2002).

Contents: Foreword, Naresh Goyal; Introduction; Part I Conception: The development of the airline industry from 1978 to 1998: a strategic global overview, Daniel Chan; Rethinking the aviation industry, Peter R. Costa, Doug S. Harned and Jerrold T. Lundquist; Mission statements of international airlines: a content analysis, Sharon Kemp and Larry Dwyer. Part II Creation: The case of Morris Air: a successful startup, Albert Charles Schultz and Erika Patricia Schultz; EasyJet: a case of entrepreneurial management?, David Rae; Embracing and exploiting industry turbulence: the strategic transformation of Aer Lingus, Denis G. Harrington, Thomas C. Lawton and Tazeeb Rajwani. Part III Context: Non-Market: European major airlines: strategic reactions to the 3rd package, Yu-Chun Chang and George Williams; The making of an African success story: the privatization of Kenya Airways, Yaw A. Debrah and Oliver K. Toroitich; Managing risks in the airline industry, Kichisaburo Nomura; Managing proactively in turbulent times: insights from the low-fare airline business, Thomas C. Lawton. Part IV Context: Market: Strategies in a dynamic marketplace: a case study in the airline industry, Peter Kangis and M. Dolores O'Reilly; Airlines within airlines: an analysis of US network responses to low cost carriers, Peter Morrell; Incompatibilities of the low-cost and network carrier business models within the same airline grouping, Luca Graf; The US airlines relative positioning based on attributes of service quality, Dogan Gursoy, Ming-Hsiang Chen and Hyun Jeong Kim; Positioning Southwest Airlines through employee branding, Sandra Jeanquart Miles and W. Glynn Mangold. Part V Content: The organizational choice between evolutionary and revolutionary capability regimes: theory and evidence from European air transport, Mark Lehrer; Why incumbents struggle to extract value from new strategic options: case of the European airline industry, Paul Vlaar, Paul De Vries and Mattijs Willenborg; Competition