This paper contributes to the debate on the role of real options theory in business strategy
and organizational decision‐making. It analyses and critiques the decision‐making and …

Strategic decisions such as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures have a strong effect on
firm performance. In order to be successful in highly competitive environments firms have to …

This paper addresses the theme of real options decision-making in multinational
corporations (MNCs) and stresses the role of real options attention and managerial learning …

This study attempted an empirical investigation of whether and how a corporate investor can
enhance future growth opportunities through corporate venturing investments (CVIs) …

Iyer and Velu have convincingly argued that contemporary analyses of fertility behaviour fail
to explain why a woman (or a couple) will choose to postpone childbirth, and in particular to …

This article shows how growth options are affected by two types of external uncertainty:
Transactional uncertainty that stems from institutional voids and increases transaction costs …

Sažetak Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a subject that has garnered considerable
attention in recent years. This study conducts the empirical study by using a real options …

This paper investigates how corporate diversification affects a firm's growth options value.
We adopt a real options approach from which diversification is seen as both a way to exploit …

This paper provides empirical evidence of how a firm's growth opportunities shape the
diversification–value relationship on a sample of US companies between 1998 and 2010 …

Business valuation1 is essential at every stage of the firm life cycle, from establishing
investment value for early and later stage growth venture capital funding to pricing of private …