Real options and real value: The role of employee incentives to make specific knowledge investments

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 701-721

  Wang, Heli ^a   Lim, Sonya Seongyeon ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee incentives; Real options; Specific knowledge investments

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; PERSONNEL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HUMAN CAPITAL (HC); HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS; INVESTMENT DECISION-MAKING; PROJECT VALUE; REAL OPTIONS; REAL VALUES; SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; STRATEGIC VALUES;

FINANCE;

EID: 45849108374     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.681     Document Type: Article

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