> If it was e.g. a Chinese or Russian company that had merged with Boeing, kicked out the engineering management and started dismantling the company from within

> If it was e.g. a Chinese or Russian company that had merged with Boeing, kicked out the engineering management and started dismantling the company from within, I think it would have been viewed as an act of hostility, but when domestic MBAs do the same, well that's just another day in capitalism? I cannot say how China handles this, but for Russian companies it is the norm for domestic management to dismantle the company from within. The only thing they need to remember is to hail Putin all the time. MBAs at least could maximize short term profits, but in Russia they couldn't do even this. You can look at the history of Roscosmos for example.