Centralizing Data Management with Considerations of Uncertainty and Information-Based Flexibility

This paper applies the theory of real options to analyze how the value of information-based flexibility should affect the decision to centralize or decentralize data management under low and high uncertainty. This study makes two main contributions. First, we show that in the presence of low uncerta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Velu, Chander K., Madnick, Stuart E., Van Alstyne, Marshall W.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: M.E. Sharpe 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87774
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9240-2573