We investigate the idea that firms' choices of M&A evaluation methods are influenced by two socio-political factors that arise in the behavioral theory of the firm-uncertainty and controversy. In doing so, we investigate boundary conditions between arguments that expect firms to use financial...

Organizational Capital Budgeting Model (OCBM) is a general theory of capital budgeting that incorporates traditional capital budgeting theories and the consideration about firm's information/ organization structure. The traditional financial capital budgeting model is a special case of OCBM....

We investigate the idea that firms' choices of M&A evaluation methods are influenced by two socio-political factors that arise in the behavioral theory of the firm-uncertainty and controversy. In doing so, we investigate boundary conditions between arguments that expect firms to use financial...