The last decade has seen many governments attempting to establish a results-oriented (or performance-based) budgeting approach. The emphasis on results or performance in the budget process reflects a new belief that public sector accountability should focus on what government does with the money it spends, rather than just the process of controlling such expenditure (Osborne and Gaebler 1992). ...

In this article I analyze the role of cooperation between firm divisions in the budgeting process. I study a setting in which cooperation is a necessary condition for information sharing among division managers, which in turn benefits the principal. The results in this article can help reconcile the differing views between practitioners and academic researchers on the desirability of cooperatio...

An excess delay each component of a design can tolerate under a given timing constraint, is referred to as a delay budget. Delay budgeting has been widely exploited to improve the design quality. We present an optimal integer delay budgeting algorithm. Due to numerical instability and discreteness of libraries of components during design optimization flow, integer solution for delay budgeting i...

Real options theory suggests that managerial flexibility embedded within irreversible investments can account for a significant value in project valuation. Although the argument has become the dominant focus of capital investment theory over decades, yet recent survey literature in capital budgeting indicates that corporate practitioners still do not explicitly apply real options in investment ...