Understanding the defense conversion dilemma

Article Abstract:

A specific conceptual framework may be used by defense contractors to better understand the defense conversion dilemma and its implications in converting defense capabilities into commercial applications. This framework may aid the decision-making process of defense companies such as Lockheed-Martin and General Dynamics, in their attempt to shift their companies from the defense markets into the civilian and commercial markets. Moreover, this framework can also be used as a guide for further research on the defense conversion dilemma.

Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, All Other Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing, Ordnance & Accessories, Defense industries, Guided Missiles, Space Vehicles, Parts, Missiles, Space Vehicles & Parts, Economic aspects, Aerospace industry, Defense industry, Economic conversion

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Defense conversion into a global system of proprietary technologies: the case of Taiwan's aircraft industry

Article Abstract:

Taiwan's Aero Industry Development Center (AIDC), which has manufactured that nation's military aircraft since 1974, has diversified into commercial aircraft production and is expected to lead Taiwan's practically non-existent commercial aircraft industry into the 21st century. A study of the structural challenges faced by AIDC in this endeavor indicates that its prospects for success are quite poor and demonstrates the very difficulty of having a strong hold in an industry of high-tech complex systems engineering.

Taiwan, Case studies, Industrial research, Diversification in industry, Industrial diversification

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Community, technology, and risk: collective well-being in the aviation industry

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The operational success of civil aviation is largely due to the engineers, pilots, air traffic controllers and cabin crew who are responsible for managing the technologies entrusted to them. Although clashes occur between the organizational bureacracy and the occupational community, it is the latter which should be credited with the 'successful management of hazard' and risk.

Social aspects, Civil aviation, Organizational behavior

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