Outsourcing Failed at Boeing [pdf]

(2001)

Note that this is a case study based on the McDonald Douglas DC-10 roughly two years before the Boeing 787, which was extensively outsourced. Boeing "merged with" McDonald Douglass in 1997.

Ref:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas