Stock market valuation with real options: Lessons from Netscape

European Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 512-526

  Buckley, Adrian ^a   Tse, Kalun ^b   Rijken, Herbert ^c   Eijgenhuijsen, Hans ^c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University Nyenrode   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage period; Real options; Stock market valuation; Volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036798828     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(02)00102-0     Document Type: Article

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