Valuate outsourcing contracts from vendors' perspective: A real options approach

Decision Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 383-405

  Jiang, Bin ^a   Yao, Tao ^b   Feng, Baichun ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical models; Outsourcing contracts; Real options theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249145374     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2008.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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