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Was the Jet Airways debacle a Black Swan event judged by its sudden fall in April 2019? Was Naresh Goyal, the founder and owner, fooled by aviation market turbulence and randomness? Since it served a growing multimillion air passenger market of India, was Jet Airways a failure in strategic Corporate Social Responsibility to multimillion air-passengers stranded in almost all major airports of India?
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Oswald, A.J., Mascarenhas, S.J. (2022). Jet Airways Insolvency: Was It a Black Swan Event or a Failure in Strategic Corporate Social Choices?. In: Das Gupta, A. (eds) A Casebook of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5719-1_7
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