Shared services transformation: Conceptualization and valuation from the perspective of real options

Decision Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-402

  Su, Ning ^a   Akkiraju, Rama ^b   Nayak, Nitin ^b   Goodwin, Richard ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

And valuation; Outsourcing; Real options; Service transformation; Shared services

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450057678     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00243.x     Document Type: Article

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