Competitive strategy : options and games / Benoit Chevalier-Roignant, Lenos Trigeorgis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-472) and index.

Strategy, games, and options -- The strategy challenge -- Strategic management and competitive advantage -- Market structure games : static approaches -- Market structure games : dynamic approaches -- Uncertainty, flexibility, and real options -- Option games : discrete-time analysis -- An integrated approach to strategy : option games -- Option to invest -- Innovation investment in two-stage games -- Option games : continuous-time models -- Investment and expansion options : monopoly -- Oligopoly : simultaneous investment -- Leadership and early-mover advantage -- Preemption vs. cooperation in a duopoly -- Extensions and other applications.

From the publisher. Corporate managers who face both strategic uncertainty and market uncertainty confront a classic trade-off between commitment and flexibility. They can stake a claim by making a large capital investment today, influencing their rivals' behavior; or they can take a "wait and see" approach to avoid adverse market consequences tomorrow. Chevalier-Roignant and Trigeorgis describe an emerging paradigm that can quantify and balance commitment and flexibility, "option games," by which the decision-making approaches of real options and game theory can be combined. The authors first discuss prerequisite concepts and tools from basic game theory, industrial organization, and real options analysis, bringing important materials and ideas together into a unified framework. They then present the new approach in discrete time and later in continuous time, beginning with the building blocks of the basic ideas and tools and culminating in richer theoretical analyses. Their presentation of continuous-time option games is the first systematic coverage of the topic and fills a significant gap in the existing literature. Competitive Strategy provides a rigorous yet pragmatic and intuitive approach to strategy formulation. It synthesizes research in the areas of strategy, economics, and finance in a way that is accessible to readers not necessarily expert in the various fields involved.