Are “Real Options” Actually Used in the Real World?

By Stanley B. Block. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Real Options in Management and Organizational Strategy: A Review of Decision‐making and Performance Implications (2012, unknown): “…of the Fortune 1000 corporations included in their survey rarely used the real options methodology for project evaluation, although more positively Block (2007) reports that 14.3% of the Fortune 1000 firms they examined were using real options methods for capital investment appraisal, while 43.5%…”
• Improved capital budgeting decision making: evidence from Canada (2010, methodology): “The results confirm Graham and Harvey (2001) and Block (2007) who found a low incidence (11.4 percent and 14.3 percent respectively).”