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Horndal at Heathrow? Capacity creation through co-operation and system evolution

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  • Bruce S. Tether
  • J. Stan Metcalfe

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At Europe's most congested airports demand for take-off and landing slots has exceeded the available supply for many years. Yet, in the face of persistent growth in air traffic activities, these airports have achieved remarkable increases in their capacities to handle flights, despite retaining the same basic infrastructures. This paper investigates this growth of capacity as a 'problem centred innovating system', in which the roles of procedural change and co-operation between teams are highlighted. 'System evolution' is also observed, as over time new agents with different knowledge bases have been brought into 'the system' to assist with the search for additional capacity. Copyright 2003, Oxford University Press.

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  • Bruce S. Tether & J. Stan Metcalfe, 2003. "Horndal at Heathrow? Capacity creation through co-operation and system evolution," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 12(3), pages 437-476, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:indcch:v:12:y:2003:i:3:p:437-476
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    1. Spiegel, Yossi & Hendel, Igal E, 2013. "Tweaking and the Horndal effect," CEPR Discussion Papers 9289, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Ronnie Ramlogan & Andrea Mina & Gindo Tampubolon & J. Stanley Metcalfe, 2007. "Networks of knowledge: The distributed nature of medical innovation," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 70(2), pages 459-489, February.
    3. Jörg Claussen & Christian Essling & Christian Peukert, 2018. "Demand variation, strategic flexibility and market entry: Evidence from the U.S. airline industry," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(11), pages 2877-2898, November.
    4. Bruce S. Tether & Qian Cher Li & Andrea Mina, 2012. "Knowledge-bases, places, spatial configurations and the performance of knowledge-intensive professional service firms," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 12(5), pages 969-1001, September.
    5. Julia Bennell & Mohammad Mesgarpour & Chris Potts, 2013. "Airport runway scheduling," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 204(1), pages 249-270, April.
    6. Noto, Claudio, 2020. "Airport slots, secondary trading, and congestion pricing at an airport with a dominant network airline," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    7. Metcalfe, J.S. & James, Andrew & Mina, Andrea, 2005. "Emergent innovation systems and the delivery of clinical services: The case of intra-ocular lenses," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(9), pages 1283-1304, November.
    8. Gudmundsson, Sveinn & Paleari, Stefano & Redondi, Renato, 2014. "Spillover effects of the development constraints in London Heathrow Airport," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 64-74.

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