For this activity, you will be analyzing the activities of some of the strategic business dealings of major airline companies. Begin by reading:
- The Airbus-Boeing Duopoly is Extremely Unbalanced/Bloomberg (Links to an external site.)
- After Betting Its Future on Boeing, Jetmaker Embraer Scrambles for Elusive Plan B/US News (Links to an external site.)
- Boeing’s Embraer deal is a key strategic play for the future/Seattletimes.com (Links to an external site.)
- Mergers/ftc.gov (Links to an external site.)
- Lockheed Buying Aerojet Rocketdyne To Integrate Space And Rocket Work/Aviation Week Network (Links to an external site.)
Based on the factual information in these readings and apparent motivations of Airbus, Boeing, and Lockheed in their respective deals, analyze and state a detailed opinion on the following questions:
Does it appear that either or both of these proposed deals was, at the time, the articles were written:
- Contrary to antitrust law?
- Pro- or anti-competitive or both?
- Each beneficial to both parties?
- Ethical or unethical, particularly from the perspective of corporate social responsibility?
- Positive contributions to the sustainability of each of those four aerospace companies?
- Likely to accelerate, decelerate, or have no effect on technological progress in the global aerospace industry as a whole?
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