Firm and industry influences on the value of growth options

Strategic Organization

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-95

  Tong, Tony W ^a   Reuer, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

firm effects; industry effects; real options theory; value of growth options; variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993723162     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127006061033     Document Type: Article

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