When does a venture capital firm withdraw from an investment project prior to its completion? This study offers a real options view on this decision by examining the contingent effects of portfolio configuration. We explore how project withdrawal can be influenced by two distinct dimensions of...

Existing research has utilized real options theory to analyze corporate venture capital (CVC) investment, yet little work has empirically studied such investment in a comparative setting. In this paper, we begin to address this gap by investigating firms' investment mode choice between CVC and...

This study reviews the research on international investment strategy from a real options lens and discusses avenues for future research. Uncertainty has been a persistent feature in international business, and multinational enterprises (MNEs) have to deal with uncertainty (e.g., market,...