Aviation Case Studies Samples That Help You Write Better, Faster & with Gusto

1. Introduction
Strategic management of business organisations in the industry is a crucial and vital factor as the same directly influences survival, growth and profitability of an organisation in the market . A business organisation faces numerous challenges that are contributed by factors prevailing in the internal and external business environment to which an organisation has to continuously adapt to . When it comes to the service industry in general and the aviation industry in particular, the strategies taken up by a business organisation may lead to the development of competitive advantage, or it may also adversely affect a business organisation Continue reading...

Communications

AIRLINES AND EQUIVOCALITY
1. According to Karl Weick, organizations are the product of constant change in perception and the member’s interactive efforts to remain in touch with the changing reality. Unlike traditional conceptions of organizations that tend to be more statist in nature with established rules and regulations and defined power structures, Weick believes that equivocality is central to organizational life, and members need to constantly attempt to reduce the equivocality through rules and interaction.
Rules, according to Weick, serve to reduce equivocality in the case of relatively les complex issues; however, if issues are more complex, the Continue reading...

The aircraft-manufacturing industry has apparently become very competitive with the passing of time and the continued development of technology. Easy access to information about competitors' moves in the industry is not helping either as it has made it easy for competitors to monitor each other's moves in the market. The increased competition also means increased risks in investing in the industry. This being because the investments are massive in dollar values and, in the event of a failure, the outcome could be devastating to an aircraft-manufacturing company. Despite this, the companies have to keep investing into new models of Continue reading...

Ryan air faced the challenges of fierce competition from older, larger and well established airlines-BA and Aer Lingus. Despite increasing customer volume, the company had suffered from a great deal of turbulence and managerial crisis in early 1990s. The five chief executives were changed and losses accumulated to £20 million. In order to damage competition and survive in fiercely competitive business environment the airline revamped itself to become Europe’s first low-fares and no-frills carrier airline and established its business on the model of Southwest Airlines which has been a Texas based successful operator in the airline industry.

External analysis base on the five forces framework

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Dating back from ancient times, rhetoric, as formulated thousands years ago in Ancient Greek by Aristotle is as relevant as ever. Rhetoric, and especially the ethos component of rhetoric is used for analyzing a highly mediated recent event – the Malaysian Airline Flight MG 370 – which is significant because it challenges the authority and credibility of an airline company, due to its poor discourse and communication.
The purpose of rhetoric is to influence audiences upon a possible truth and determine people to take the desired action, but for succeeding in doing so, the speaker must coordinate three aspects of the Continue reading...

Business risk is the probability that an auditor will suffer a loss or injury to his professional practice. It may also be defined as the risk that result from significant conditions, events, circumstances, actions or inactions that could adversely affect an entity’s abilities to achieve its objectives and execute its strategies. Risks are a natural part of the business, however, if not controlled they can jeopardize the operations of companies. There are various reasons that may result in a higher assessment of client‘s business risk. They include, overall economic climate, advanced technological change like when Apple’s Continue reading...

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In the case facts for Benjamin v. Lindner Aviation, Inc., 534 NW2d 400 (1975), the State Central Bank bought an airplane in 1991 when the bank reclaimed the aircraft when the owner default on the payments. Later in the same year, the bank delivered the plane to Lindner Aviation for a periodic yearly inspection. The appellant in the case, Heath Benjamin, was assigned the task to conduct the inspection for the aircraft. One component of the inspection required Benjamin to remove the planes from the wing’s undersurfaces. Though the panels had to be detached as Continue reading...

Growth and general outlook of General Aviation Manufacturers Association from 2013 to 2014 has been defined by variances such as increment in the airplane shipments by 4.3% which covers 2,256 deliveries. Industry billing number also increased to 24.0% which is.23.4 billion. Business jets market stabilized in 2013 after the previous 4 year slow down. Total deliveries of 678 jets in 2013 compared to 672 in 2012. Market share up to 52.4% compares to 2012 49.7%. Turboprops shipment deliveries increased by 10.4% to 645 compared to 2012 which was 584. Turbine helicopters shipment increased by 9.2% totaling to 782 Continue reading...

The primary challenge of the two developments is safety. Any aerodynamic development must first ensure that the safety of its use if fully guaranteed. The modern drones are small such that one can easily destroy them with a catapult or a hunter’s rifle (4x4 Aviation, n.d). If one must extend the drone technology to larger ones, one must consider the security of the people on the ground since a much heavier craft has a higher risk of falling or stalling midair. Since both concepts advocate auto control, there is a need to ensure that one cannot hijack, and Continue reading...

Introduction

Engineering is one of the professionals that focus on improving lives. The National Society of Professional Engineers (NPSE) is an established professional society based in United States. NSPE is a known society of Engineers that provides legislatures that govern the action of the profession to ensure all engineering works in the country are ethical. Members of NSPE must understand the underlying rules and policies governing the practice of Engineering and adhere to this regulation in all their professional activities. On the other hand, Engineering is a very respected and learned professional therefore; members are expected to demonstrate highest standards Continue reading...

Businesses are increasingly operating in highly competitive markets. That owes to increasingly changing business environment that determines the nature of competition ranging from the ability to reach the market, sell at a suitable price and sustain their operations, in the long run. Thus, analyzing industry competitiveness is crucial for a business that seeks to enhance its market share and creates a competitive edge over its competitors. In that view, there are several analysis tools that rate applicable and that address various industry aspects. They help in determining a business’ position in the market as well as help in setting Continue reading...

Business

The strategy of NYA is to provide the airline services to the customers at the lowest prices as compared to the dominating airlines of the specific routes. This tactic or the business strategy is known as the low price strategy to increase the market share of the business. According to the scenario, the purchase of more airplane shows that the strategy is working on the routes.
The strategy of Eastern Airline is to provide the best possible services to their customers as compared to the NYA. Their prices are higher that NYA and Eastern Airline is providing the best Continue reading...

Effectiveness of Southwest Airline’s leadership

For any organization to be successful, effective leadership plays a major role. Poor performance in any field points out to failure from the part of the leadership to come up with necessary policies to propel an organization in order to meet its targets (Beeton, 2000). On a similar note, proper and effective leadership is always associated with success. This calls for the implementation.
In the case of Southwest Airline, analyzing the leadership should take two distinct stages. The first stage is when the organization was performing well under the stewardship of Her Kelleher. As already described in the scenario, Continue reading...

International Business

Abstract
This paper presents the problem that Target Company Faced in Canada. Target Company Canada is a subsidiary of the Target Corporation that is based in USA. The company operates in the industry of department store, and it is being liquidated currently. Many Canadians loved shopping at Target whenever they visited USA and before the Company launched its operations in Canada. The prices in the company's Canadian stores were higher than those in the American stores. Most of the consumers in Canada were used to shop in different rates, and the company did not convince the Canadian customers to Continue reading...

Ethics in the Electronics Industry

Abstract
In recent years, significant media and consumer attention has been focused on the working conditions of foreign laborers employed in factories producing goods for sale in the US and other developed countries. Various human and labor rights organizations have reported that workers are routinely forced to work more than the legal amount of hours, greatly underpaid, and forced to work in unsafe conditions. As public outcry mounts, companies are increasingly forced to attend to these issues and keep pace with consumer consciousness and shifting consumer values. The purpose of this paper is to explore the ethical issues faced Continue reading...

Introduction:

Nowadays every company is trying to bring some new or upgrade the current innovation strategies in order to compete in the market (Birkinshaw, & Goddard, 2009). For the successful implication of the innovative strategies effectively, it is essential for the company to build the innovation management (Birkinshaw, 2010). Management innovation is the implication of the management techniques, process and practices which are new and could help the organization in accomplishing the organizational goals (Birkinshaw, Hamel, & Mol, 2008). In this essay report, the case study of the Lego Group is being discussed to analyze how the company implements its management innovation Continue reading...

Company background

Zara is the Inditex’s largest fashion chain founded in the year 1975 in Galicia, Spain. The chain has continued to generate highest profit margins for Inditex. Among all the chains, Zara is the most recognized chain since the majority of Inditex captured market is for it. The chain has fruitfully proven itself as a top corporation that is successful in offering service to their clientele. Zara rejects blow-out sales and media advertising and, as a result, it offers a substitute outlook to the clothing retail business model. In addition, Zara maintains the majority of its process of production Continue reading...

Introduction

KIPP Houston Public Schools is an educational enterprise founded by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in 1994. The abbreviation KIPP in full is Knowledge Is Power Program. The group of schools has all along been on a growth trajectory. This group of schools is headed by a superintendent, the current one being Sehba Ali.

Internal Analysis

The possibility of its low-income students enrolling for college education has increased by four times compared to that of students from traditional public schools. The education model it pioneered has spread across the country and beyond borders. Its students display a great character not witnessed Continue reading...

Situation Overview

Offsets as a marketing tool are appropriate in that they motivate purchases by exhibiting and assuring additional advantages for the customer country beside the military investment. Bell Boeing’s preference for offsets instead of cash transactions is in line with the widespread sale techniques. Politically, defense offsets are more motivating than primarily acquiring the items of trade. There are also democratic psychologies that sideline the use of cash in transactions and promote the preference for use of offsets. However, there is the risk of corruption occurring in the offset way of acquiring military weapons such as tilt rotors. As Continue reading...

Equity Long-Short y is an investing strategy that is utilized principally by hedge funds and which entails undertaking long positions in stocks that are anticipated to increase in worth and short positions in stocks that are anticipated to reduce in worth. A long position involves purchasing a stock that will increase in value while a short position involves obtaining a stock you do not possess, selling it, then hoping it decreases in value, at which time you can purchase it once more at a lower cost.
Convertible Arbitrage is an investment strategy that entails undertaking a long position in Continue reading...