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Gies, Johann Peter (2017)

The Impact of the Institutional Environment on the Performance of State-Owned and Private Airlines in China and India

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

Companies are organisations whose performance is influenced by the institutional environment. This environment is composed of several institutional elements, which impact the performance of businesses. The case study of this thesis compares the financial and operational performance of nine Indian and twenty-four Chinese airlines between 2010 and 2015. By means of a thorough and extensive data collection, it has been found that Indian airlines perform more on-time than their Chinese peers, whilst Chinese carriers tend to exhibit a more solid financial performance. The underlying causes for these outcomes are subsequently investigated through a newspaper review, which brought several institutional elements to the limelight, that can largely explicate the divergences in performance. The identified elements range from modes of decision making and legal elements to government affiliation and policy, which are analysed in detail.

Political Economy

Institutions

Airlines

Business Analysis

Author

Gies, Johann Peter

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

International Studies

Supervisors

Wang, Jue

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en