Valuing information technology infrastructures: A growth options approach

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Dai, Qizhi ^a   Kauffman, Robert J ^b   March, Salvatore T ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business value; Flexibility; IT infrastructure; IT investments; Middleware technologies; Real options

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947104665     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-006-0006-2     Document Type: Article

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