Justifying the origin of real options and their difficult evaluation in strategic management

Thierry Burger-Helmchen

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Abstract: I explore and review the introduction of real options in strategic management studies. My aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the origin of the real options. By distinguishing between shadow and real options and implementing entrepreneurship in the traditional option valuation framework, I obtain a more exhaustive representation of the strategic decision processes in the firm. I explain the creation of a real option as an entrepreneurial process, one which transforms inventive ideas into profitable innovation. This constitutes a step toward an option-based theory of the firm by describing the emergence of a firm's options and the strategic building of new competencies for exercising these options. In addition, this approach offers a parallel understanding of why the real options theory is less often used in practice than in theory.

Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Entrepreneurship; Real Options; Theory of the Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Schmalenbach Business Review, 2007, 59 (4), pp.387-405. ⟨10.1007/BF03396756⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/BF03396756

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