An approach to the valuation and decision of ERP investment projects based on real options

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 181-203

  Wu, F ^a   Li, H Z ^a   Chu, L K ^b   Sculli, D ^b   Gao, K ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Decision making; Enterprise resources planning (ERP); Mixed integer programming; Real option; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949170084     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-008-0365-7     Document Type: Article

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