Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
Managing Information Technology Investment Risk: A Real Options Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Evaluate IT Investment Opportunities Using Real Options Theory
Information Resources Management Journal
A multi-criteria game theory and real-options model for irreversible ICT investment decisions
Telecommunications Policy
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E-learning markets have been expanding very rapidly. As a result, the involved senior managers are increasingly being confronted with the need to make significant investment decisions related to the elearning business activities. Real options applications to risk management and investment evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies ICT have mainly focused on a single and a priori known option. However, these options are not inherent in any ICT investment. Actually, they must be carefully planned and intentionally embedded in the ICT investment in order to mitigate its risks and increase its return. Moreover, when an ICT investment involves multiple risks, by adopting different series of cascading options we may achieve risk mitigation and enhance investment performance. In this article, we apply real options to the e-learning investments evaluation. Given the investment's requirements, assumptions and risks, the goal is to maximize the investment's value by identifying a good way to structure it using carefully chosen real options.