Real Options in Strategic Management.Real Options: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead. Real Options Theory and International Strategy: A Critical Review. Joint Ventures and Real Options: An Integrated Perspective. How Do Real Options Matter? Empirical Research on Strategic Investments and Firm Performance. Strategic Growth Options in Network Industries. Market Versus Managerial Valuations of Real Options. Deferral and Growth Options Under Sequential Innovation. Business Method Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation. Managing a Portfolio of Real Options. Capabilities, Real Options, and the Resource Allocation Process. Real Options Meet Organizational Theory: Coping with Path Dependencies, Agency Costs, and Organizational Form. Real Options and Resource Reallocation Processes. Why Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital? A Real Options View of Employment Contracts. An Examination of Options Embedded in a Firm's Patents: The Value of Dispersion in Citations. Technology Switching Option and the Market Value of the Firm: A Model and an Empirical Test. Strategic Implications of Valuation: Evidence from Valuing Growth Options. An Empirical Examination of Management of Real Options in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry. List of Contributors.

Examines the ways in which real options theory can contribute to strategic management. This volume seeks to examine the ways in which real options theory can contribute to strategic management. It presents theoretical and empirical analyses of real options in different strategic contexts.