Preface -- 1 Management Summary -- 2 Fundamentals and Structure of Aviation Systems -- 3 The Environment of Aviation -- Part I: The Supply Side of Aviation -- 4 From the Aviation Value Chain to the Aviation System -- 5 Airline Strategy from Network Management to Business Models -- 6 Managing...

This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms. Examining a cross-section of US airline city pairs, Tabacco proposes for the first time that the industry can be...

This book presents research on how businesses can be empowered to manage their company’s risk exposure in international settings. It elaborates on approaches that advocate the minimizing of threats and sizing opportunities as the best strategy through which corporate objectives are maximized....

1. Risky Play -- 2. Falling Fast -- 3. Moral Risk in a Nursing Home -- 4. Coping with Fallibility in Aviation -- 5. Fallibility and Trust in Healthcare -- 6. Approaches to Help in Organizations -- 7. Ethics of Fallibility

The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies. The complexity of regulations overstrains the aviation stakeholders who seek to...

The scope of this volume centers on advancements in the state of art and the state of the practice in computer-aided systems in public transport. Yet, this volume illustrates a greater breadth of subjects in this area. The common theme remains the use of computer-aided methods and operations...

The debate on the future of the aviation sector and the evolution of its traditional business practices is the core of this book. The new millennium began with terrorist attacks, epidemics, globalization, and the rise in oil prices which all combined to push the industry into a perfect storm....

Market Research: Overcoming Incomplete, Inconsistent, or Outdated Data -- Network Structures Follow Network Strategies -- Designing Connectivity-Driven Network and Hub Structures -- Designing Asset-Productive Networks -- Case Studies -- Planning and Controlling Networks: Networking Higher Math,...