"An important class of investment decisions is characterized by unrecoverable sunk costs, resolution of uncertainty through time, and the ability to invest in the future as an alternative to investing today. The options model provides guidance in such settings, including an investment decision...

Commitment im Sinne von Selbstbindung an wettbewerbsstrategische Entscheidungen ist eine unerläßliche Voraussetzung für die Erlangung nachhaltiger Wettbewerbsvorteile. Nur die Bindung an spezifische, weder imitier- noch handelbare Ressourcen eröffnet einer Unternehmung die Chance,...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to explore the ability of a novel psychological theory of how people make decisions, narrative‐based decision theory, to help explain people's decisions about whether to continue investment in a research and development (R&D) project (R&D progress...

This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm s investment choices when the firm has an option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits go beyond a given level. It is shown that a pure price...