Concorde and Dissent: Explaining High Technology Project Failures in Britain and France

by Elliot J. Feldman

Book Overview

This book is a study of the joint British and French construction of Concorde, and their separate projects to build new international airports in London (the repeatedly abandoned third airport) and Paris (Charles de Gaulle). Conventional explanations of these projects, all of which can be seen as 'failures' in some sense, contrast French professional and rational planning expertise with the amateurishness of the British. Professor Feldman challenges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521108268
• ISBN13: 9780521108263
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"