The option-creating institution: A real options perspective on economic organization

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 455-470

  Scherpereel, Christopher M ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Exchange; Governance; Real options; Theory of the firm; Transaction cost

Indexed keywords

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EXCHANGE; GOVERNANCE; TRANSACTION COST;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 42149118341     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.671     Document Type: Article

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