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Capital budgeting for the unexpected

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This study examines capital budgeting and decision making for large industrial projects, and the way unexpected costs are generated and handled. Incidents from decision making in the industry are examined. Results show that the capital budgeting process has to handle conflicting interests, leading to trade-offs, as well as decision processes characteristics (sequentiality), which may give rise unexpected costs.

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  • Zaring, Olof, 1996. "Capital budgeting for the unexpected," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 233-241, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:12:y:1996:i:3:p:233-241
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    1. Markus Glaser & Florencio Lopez-De-Silanes & Zacharias Sautner, 2013. "Opening the Black Box: Internal Capital Markets and Managerial Power," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 68(4), pages 1577-1631, August.

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