Real options valuation: The new frontier in R&D project evaluation?

R and D Management

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 255-270

  Perlitz, Manfred ^a   Peske, Thorsten ^a   Schrank, Randolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b M2C Prof Perlitz Partner Consult   (Germany)

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EID: 0013417759     PISSN: 00336807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9310.00135     Document Type: Review

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