Technology competition and optimal investment timing: A real options perspective

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-29

  Kauffman, Robert J ^a   Li, Xiaotong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Decision analysis; Investment timing; Network externalities; Option pricing; Real options; Stochastic processes; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; TECHNOLOGY; THEOREM PROVING;

CAPITAL BUDGETING; INVESTMENT TIMING; NETWORK EXTERNALITIES; OPTION PRICING; REAL OPTIONS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 13844275988     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2004.839962     Document Type: Article

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