Real Options Meet Organizational Theory: Coping with Path Dependencies, Agency Costs, and Organizational Form

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 24, Issue , 2007, Pages 333-361

  Coff, Russell W ^a   Laverty, Kevin J ^a  

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EID: 34250210174     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-3322(07)24012-4     Document Type: Review

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