Regional disparities are still growing in many countries, both developed and underdeveloped, despite significant effort made. It seems a standard approach based on direct subsidies or project-type support is insufficient. Recently, new schemes have appeared, the place approach. These times referred to as integrated territorial investments, which replace classic individual projects. Integrated n...

We examine how the presence of network effects influences investment decisions. Building a network requires significant upfront investment but benefits carry tremendous uncertainty. This creates an incentive to defer the commitment of irreversible investments. However, such investments may also create the opportunity to convince the consumers about the network’s size, establish a network standa...

We provide a strategic rationale for growth options under uncertainty and imperfect competition. In a market with strategic competition, investment confers a greater capability to take advantage of future growth opportunities. This strategic advantage leads to the capture of a greater share of the market, either by dissuading entry or by inducing competitors to 'make room' for the stronger comp...

Conflict is the key factor to affect investment and benefits of the industry technologies and innovation strategic alliance. This paper constructs an investment decision model of industry technology innovation strategic alliance by discussing the influence of the conflict on the alliance generic technology investment and the impact of member benefits. The results suggest that maximize revenue o...

Appeared in Information Resources Management Journal, Vol. 13, no. 4, 2000. Reprinted by permission. Many information technology projects fail, especially those intended as strategic. Yet, there is little research that attempts to explain the link between the IT investment intensity of strategic investment decisions (SIDs) and organizational decision-making, in order to understand this phenomen...

This paper examines the foreign financial institutions‟ spillover effects in China‟s banking sector through three channels, foreign strategic investment, employee turnover, and competition using qualitative analyses and quantitative analyses. Through comparing Chinese banks performance between preand postforeign strategic investment, and the OLS regression analyses, we found that the foreign st...

Strategic investment decisions (SID’s) are more easily understood and controlled than most of the other activities undertaken within the framework of strategic management. Hyperknowledge support systems have been used as problem solving and decision support environments for strategic management and for strategic decision making in a number of industries in recent years. It appears that the logi...

Developing technology standards require significant upfront investment expenditures. The value of the resulting technology depends on how it is deployed (e.g., proprietary use versus licensing) and remains uncertain. Hence, the rules governing investments in technology development must be conditioned on the subsequent deployment strategy (e.g. licensing fee) and the nature of uncertainty. In th...