著者
坂出 健
出版者
Business History Society of Japan
雑誌
経営史学 (ISSN:03869113)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.45, no.1, pp.1_3-1_27, 2010 (Released:2014-05-23)

This article focuses on the decision-making process of Prime Minister Heath's administration toward the corporate failure of Rolls-Royce. I chose this process in light of the fact that modern airliner projects were too big to be managed by private corporations. I will examine not only the question, “Why did Rolls-Royce go bankrupt?”, but also “Why did the Heath administration leave Rolls-Royce to go bankrupt?”In March 1968, Rolls-Royce made a contract for producing RB211 engines for Lockheed's TriStar airliners. At that time, Lockheed and Rolls-Royce expected the TriStar/RB211 to enjoy a monopoly in the medium-range wide-bodied airliner market. However, the expected production quantity for the RB211 had been shrinking. Rolls-Royce, therefore, could not absorb the escalation of the development costs of the RB211 project and, consequently, suffered a severe liquidity crisis. At the time of the first liquidity crisis in October 1970, the Heath administration pulled out of a commitment from the City as money lenders to Rolls-Royce. At the time of the second liquidity crisis in January 1971, the Heath administration decided to leave Rolls-Royce to go into bankruptcy. If the RB211 were to be cancelled, it would certainly cause the chain bankruptcy of Lockheed. As a result, Lockheed, the United States Nixon administration, the British Heath administration, and the United States bank group started negotiations over the continuation of the TriStar/RB211 project. By June 1971, the United States bank group agreed to provide a new $250 million loan to Lockheed subject to a debt guarantee by the United States government. With this new loan, Lockheed had the room to raise the price of the RB211 engines.Faced with the crisis of this prestigious national corporation. the Heath administration did not bail out Rolls-Royce by limitless government financial commitment but rather ‘bailed in’ concerned business interests — namely, the City, Lockheed, and the United States bank group.
著者
坂出 健
出版者
京都大学学際融合教育研究推進センター
雑誌
といとうとい
巻号頁・発行日
pp.58-66, 2021-06-30

世界が大きく変わりつつあるなかで、新しいルールが求められている。ただマクロな興隆を理解するためには、まずミクロな産業、そこにある原理から世界を照射する必要があるのではないか?航空機産業の歴史をつぶさに見つめてきた著者が、たえまなく動きつづける世界の裏側を描き出す。
著者
坂出 健
出版者
京都大学
雑誌
基盤研究(C)
巻号頁・発行日
2011

航空機産業のような防衛産業基盤は国家安全保障に不可欠である。防衛産業基盤は、第一に国家の自立を確保するために重要であり、第二に、他国(例えばアメリカ)から供給を受けるにしても、機器の整備、購入時の交渉力を確保するために必要である。その意味で、軍事産業基盤は公共財という性格を有しているが、その国際的配分の規範もまた確定される必要がある。本研究を通じて、国際公共財としての軍事産業基盤の特質を理論的・実証的に検討する。