The real options-based conceptual framework for alliance-making presented here responds to the challenge of developing a new metrics for managing strategic partnerships in the face of uncertainty. Such a framework involves: mapping (and selecting one of) the various staged paths envisioned for...

This paper utilizes the information collected in three Surveys on Italian Manufacturing Firms to make inferences about the characteristics of those enterprises using equity capital as the only source of finance when funding their investments. In fact, while the role of external bank debt to the...

1. The Economics of Private Equity: Designing and Structuring the Management Company -- 2. Who are Private Equity Targets? -- 3. Survey on Private Equity Investment Targeting in Italy -- 4. A Private Equity Deal: the Case of Invisible Ink -- 5. Conclusions

Part I A Real Options-Based Analysis of Synergies Created via Strategic Alliances -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Managing Strategic Alliances in Good and Bad Times -- 3. Classifying Synergistic Growth Options Embedded in Strategic Alliances -- 4. A Real Options-Based Conceptual Framework for...

As an alternative, the authors propose a real options approach to managing a business unit portfolio as a better framework for conducting the goodwill impairment test. A real options approach to testing goodwill for impairment - as opposed to the standard fair value assessment based on DCF...