Real Options Theory (Advances in Strategic Management)

Real Options Theory (Advances in Strategic Management)
Publisher:JAI Press | Pages:520 | 2007-08-13 | ISBN: 0762314273 | PDF | 2 MB


Product Description:

Real options theory has attracted significant interest in the field of strategic management. Advocates of the approach emphasize that importing concepts from financial economics holds out the potential of yielding new insights on strategic decision-making under uncertainty as well as boundary-of-the-firm issues that are the focus of competitive and corporate strategy. While considerable progress has been made in conceptualizing different types of real options for various strategic investments, considerably less has been done to empirically validate the core propositions of real options theory. As a result there is much debate about the merits and promise of real options in strategy.

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