In today's environment, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires creating effective alliances. Alliances are essential building blocks for companies to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Alliances are now a fact of life for business, an important piece of current operations as well as future strategy. This article provides an important and useful pers...

The increasing complexity of business and social settings has lead to innovation becoming a strategic imperative. The need for innovation in the quest for competitive advantage also means that firms must be dynamic and flexible. This is often achieved through collaborative arrangements such as alliances. Many organizations form alliances by leveraging their resources to gain access to the partn...

Previous researches for understanding supply chain relationship have mostly focused on its vertical collaboration between buyers and suppliers. However, there have been some instances of volatile and stable collaborative relationships amongst competitors such as Apple-Samsung product manufacturer-component supplier relationship and airline alliances, respectively, which is recognized as coopeti...

A number of the worlds’ major airports have a high proportion of their capacity utilised by a single airline, or alliance of airlines. At major US airports, for example, it is common for the leading carrier to account for threequarters or more of the flights; at European airports the proportions are generally smaller but often exceed 50 per cent (see Annex 1). This has lead to concerns that suc...

Abstract Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) are often under pressure to expand at the highest possible speed in international markets. They therefore embed themselves networks of alliances where they can access resources form relational assets, information, and learning facilitate swifter internationalisation whilst circumventing risks time-compression diseconomies. Hence, drawing from network th...

Decision makers in air transportation face many uncertainties. In spite of this, airline planning models do not explicitly consider uncertainty in operations. As a result, there is often a notable discrepancy between an airline’s planned and actual performance. We present a stochastic model of the daily operations of a domestic airline. Its primary purpose is to evaluate plans, such as crew sch...

An airline schedule very rarely operates as planned. Problems related with aircrafts, crew members and passengers are common and the actions towards the solution of these problems are usually known as operations recovery or disruption management. The Airline Operations Control Center (AOCC) tries to solve these problems with the minimum impact in the airline schedule, with the minimum cost and,...