Vyacheslav KlyuchnikovPublished in:
Russian Journal of Entrepreneurship
– № 12-2 / December, 2011



Keywords: information technologies, investment, managerial flexibility, real options, uncertainty of costs


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Abstract:

A company is implementing an IT project. How do you assess the expediency of investing into it? The writer suggests doing that by means of real options.

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