Globalisation and China's Commercial Aircraft Industry: Resources and Institutions

by Jin Zhang

This book explores the extent to which China's new 158 seat airliner, the C919, rolled out in March 2015 can succeed in competing with the duopoly of Airbus and Boeing in this segment of the aircraft market, and examines China's motivation for wanting to compete in this market. It outlines the failure of China's previous attempt, in the 1960s, to build a commercially successful large airliner, the Y-10, discusses the structure of the global and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138062200
• ISBN13: 9781138062207
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages