Managerial decision-making in hospitals with real options analysis

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 673-691

  Wernz, Christian ^a   Gehrke, Inga ^b   Ball, Daniel R ^c  

^a State University   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Hospital management; Real options analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949088053     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-013-0230-3     Document Type: Article

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