25 Years Real Options Approach to Investment Valuation: Review and Assessment -- Accounting-based Investment Incentives and Real Options -- The Evaluation of Venture Capital as an Instalment Option: Valuing Real Options Using Real Options -- Strategic Investment under Uncertainty: Merging Real...

The main aim of this paper is to derive properties of an optimal compensation scheme for consumer cooperatives (Coops) in situations of strategic interaction with profitmaximizing firms (PMFs). Our model provides a reason why Coops are less prone than PMFs to pay variable bonuses to their...

Distribution channels in which a common retailer undertakes long-term investments and coordinates the sale of competing products are prevalent in many industries. We study how the allocation of bargaining power among the retailer and the suppliers affects investment incentives, market shares,...

In this paper we demonstrate that hiring a manager with a propensity to over-invest in socially and responsible production can increase firm profits if customers not only care about the responsible behavior of the market firm but also about the engagements of all players along the firm’s...

In this paper we study the emergence of firm asymmetry as an equilibrium outcome. We consider differentiated Cournot and Bertrand duopolies where firms endogenously select their organizational governance and their timing strategy for the market stage. It is shown that for both market structures...

Management scholars have long stressed the importance of evolutionary processses for inter-firm cooperation but have mostly missed the promising opportunity to incorporate ideas from evolutionary theories into the analysis of collaborative arrangements. In this paper, we first present three...

In this paper a quantity-setting duopoly is considered where one firm develops a new product which is horizontally differentiated from the existing product. The main question examined is which strategically important effects occur if the decision to develop the innovation and the decision to...