The choice between greenfield investment and cross-border acquisition: A real option approach

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 447-465

  Gilroy, Bernard Michael ^a   Lukas, Elmar ^a  

^a Faculty of Business Administration   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross border acquisition; Entry mode; Foreign direct investment; Greenfield investment; Multinational enterprise; Sequential investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745830493     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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