A real options design for product outsourcing

Engineering Economist

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-217

  Nembhard, Harriet Black ^a   Shi, Leyuan ^a   Aktan, Mehmet ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPAREL MANUFACTURING; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; FINANCIAL MODELING; MARKET CONDITION; NET PRESENT VALUE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OUTSOURCING STRATEGY; REAL OPTIONS APPROACH;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 22444438982     PISSN: 0013791X     EISSN: 15472701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00137910308965062     Document Type: Article

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