Project Management Under Risk: Using the Real Options Approach to Evaluate Flexibility in R...D
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Real Options; R...D Projects; Project Evaluation; Decision Trees; Stochastic Dynamic Programming; Managerial Flexibility; Project Management;All these keywords.
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