Governance and uncertainty: the trade-off between administrative control and commitment

This study elaborates upon the motives for initiating equity-based collaborations vs. acquisition of another firm already having a desired technology. We characterize both minority direct investments and joint ventures as options to defer either internal development or acquisition of a target firm. In domains where learning about growth opportunities dominates investment activity, this incremental mode of governance economizes on the cost of committing resources to a technology with an uncertain value. Using a sample of 402 transactions in the biotechnology industry, we find strong support for the theoretical model. The findings suggest that the cost of commitment in the face of technological uncertainty may offset the administrative benefits of hierarchical governance. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Economic exposure and integrated risk management

Most corporate risk management research focuses on particular risk exposures to the exclusion of other interrelated exposures. By contrast, this study models corporate risk exposures using a multivariate approach integrating the distinct exposures of interest to finance, international business, and strategy researchers. The paper addresses the implications of multivariate modeling for corporate risk management, some key methodological issues arising in empirical estimation of corporate economic exposures, and directions for research on integrated risk management. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The moderating effect of innovative capacity on the relationship between real options and strategic flexibility

In dynamic sectors, organizations should be capable of adapting to unpredictable environmental conditions. Strategic flexibility grants organizations the capacity to respond to the changes in their environment in the direction required, renewing their strategies and making the required organizational changes. The goal of this study is to analyze how the use of real options relates to strategic flexibility from a managerial capacity perspective. Through an empirical study performed on European firms, we confirm that innovative capacity exercises a moderating role between real options and strategic flexibility. The fact that a firm's management has foreseen and contemplated real options does not necessarily lead to their execution; they must also be accompanied by some innovative capacity.     

Why some firms never invest in formal R&D

In this paper we study the frequency of formal R&D investments. We link real options theory to the knowledge‐based view to explain how a firm's knowledge resources influence its frequency of investing in R&D to establish technological options. Specifically, we propose that a firm that lacks internal knowledge resources is more likely to never invest in R&D, a firm that has both internal and external knowledge resources is more likely to sometimes invest in R&D, while a firm that has internal knowledge resources but lacks external knowledge resources is more likely to always invest in R&D. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

传统净现值法低估柔性方案的价值及其改进

净现值法作为目前投资方案评价中广为采纳的一种方法,用来评估带有柔性操作的投资项目时,将会低估项目中内含的嵌入期权。改进的办法是利用期权复制的思想．对发生柔性操作的那一期折现率进行修正,从而正确地评估投资方案,指导投资者做出正确的决策。     

河北省服务创新的制约因素及其对策分析

服务创新是推动服务业持续发展的有效途径.当前,影响服务创新的因素主要有企业、公共机构、需求三个方面.河北省的服务创新发展还有许多问题需要解决,为此,河北省需要做如下工作:完善服务创新文化和创业机制、推进服务企业集群化、增进省内和省际之间的服务整合、加强对服务创新的产业引导和保护、加大服务创新的要素投入.     

Option Pricing for Pure Jump Processes with Markov Switching Compensators

This paper proposes a model for asset prices which is the exponential of a pure jump process with an N-state Markov switching compensator. We argue that such a process has a good chance of capturing all the empirical stylized regularities of stock price dynamics and we provide a closed form representation of its characteristic function. We also provide a parsimonious representation of the (not necessarily unique) risk neutral density and show how to price and hedge a large class of options on assets whose prices follow this process.     

敏捷供应链管理及其在中国的应用

本文在分析敏捷供应链管理机理的基础上,提出了敏捷供应链管理系统的优势和实施步骤,阐释了在我国实施敏捷供应链管理系统的障碍因素及可行性措施。     

美国“337”条款与我国企业对策研究

对美国"337"条款缺乏了解与对策已成为我国企业在对美贸易中遭受损失的重要原因之一,本文在对美国"337"条款进行分析的基础上对我国企业提出相应的对策建议。     

论实物期权在企业并购价值评估中的应用

实物期权定价法在评估企业价值方面有广泛的应用,通过实物期权理论的相关知识,引入的二叉树评价模型,能比较准确的评估企业价值。结合相关实例论证实物期权评价法是完善企业价值评估的理想方法。通过这种较新的理论为评估企业价值提供一种新思路,进一步完善企业并购价值评估体系。