Real options in information technology risk management: An empirical validation of risk-option relationships

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 827-864

  Benaroch, Michel ^a   Lichtenstein, Yossi ^b   Robinson, Karl ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

IT investment; Real options; Risk; Risk management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33846021950     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148756     Document Type: Article

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