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- Title
Real Options and Escalation of Commitment: A Behavioral Analysis of Capital Investment Decisions.
- Authors
Denison, Christine A.
- Abstract
This study uses experimental methods to explore whether incorporating real options into net present value analysis can reduce escalation of commitment, or the tendency of decision makers to continue to commit resources to a project after receiving negative feedback. This reduction in escalation behavior should occur because the incorporation of real options offers the user greater cognitive accessibility to the possibility of project abandonment. Findings indicate that users of real options exhibit less escalation of commitment than do users of net present value analysis alone. The main result demonstrates that the use of real options in capital budgeting can affect the behavior and decisions of the user even in an experimental setting that controls for the informational advantage of using real options.
- Subjects
REAL options (Finance); BEHAVIORAL assessment; CAPITAL investments; DECISION making; CAPITAL budget; SUNK costs
- Publication
Accounting Review, 2009, Vol 84, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
0001-4826
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2308/accr.2009.84.1.133