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

by Elliot J. Feldman

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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"

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