Why did McDonnell Douglas fail?

Most companies fail when customers do not buy their products. Douglas failed because customers did buy its products. Douglas fell with a successful innovative product, the DC-9, and an order backlog in excess of $3 billion and growing, enough work to keep its production lines humming for years.



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