Investigating the risk-return relationship of information technology investment: Firm-level empirical analysis

Management Science

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1829-1842

  Dewan, Sanjeev ^a   Shi, Charles ^a   Gurbaxani, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

IT capital; IT investment; IT returns; IT risk; IT value; Productivity paradox; Real options

Indexed keywords

MARKET VALUE SPECIFICATION; PRODUCTION FUNCTION;

INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 38549137432     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1070.0739     Document Type: Article

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