Do organizations adopt sophisticated capital budgeting practices to deal with uncertainty in the investment decision?: A research note

Management Accounting Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 106-120

  Verbeeten, Frank H M ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting practices; Game theory; Real option theory; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 31844443717     PISSN: 10445005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mar.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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