Deregulation, information technology, and the changing locational dynamics of the United States airline industry.

摘要

This dissertation's focus is the examination of how the US airline industry adopted advanced information technologies (IT) post-deregulation (1978). In particular this dissertation examines the interactions between information technologies (IT) and three processes: organization, labor, and location. Specifically the dissertation highlights how airlines, by leveraging IT, created spatial concentrations of airline functions due to organizational, labor and locational changes. The final chapter examines how IT has helped enable the development of the multinational airline alliances.