Negotiating M&As under uncertainty: The influence of managerial flexibility on the first-mover advantage

Finance Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-35

  Lukas, Elmar ^a,b   Welling, Andreas ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Game theory; Merger Acquisition; Negotiation; Real option; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857462566     PISSN: 15446123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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