Acquisitions and Real Options: The Greenfield Alternative

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Real Options in Management and Organizational Strategy: A Review of Decision‐making and Performance Implications (2012, unknown): “They can take the form of acquisitions (Brouthers and Dikova 2010), greenfield projects, partnerships or joint-venture agreements and can also be localised in learning and deferral decisions.”
Family involvement and firms’ establishment mode choice in foreign markets (2016, background): “Consequently, FFs prefer greenfield investments that are more flexible and can be modeled gradually (Brouthers & Dikova, 2010), thus being less risky and more easily self-financed.”
Interpreting Results From the Multinomial Logit Model (2015, methodology): “Finally, external uncertainty was measured using a set of nine 7-point scale Likert type questions taken from Brouthers and Dikova (2010) and Brouthers (2002).”
Mergers and acquisitions in and out of emerging economies (2015, background): “Brouthers and Dikova (2010) examine how firms choose between greenfield investments (as real options) and acquisitions when entering emerging markets. Xu, Zhou, and Phan (2010) investigate domestic acquisitions in China. Their data suggest that acquisitions tend to be undertaken in a sequential mann”