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Publication date: 9 January 2017

Jyrki Savolainen, Mikael Collan and Pasi Luukka

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how managerial estimates of long-term market price trends can be included into investment analysis of metal mining. The inclusion of…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how managerial estimates of long-term market price trends can be included into investment analysis of metal mining. The inclusion of subjective market information with a new cycle reverting price process is proposed.

Design/methodology/approach

Subjective managerial estimates are included into stochastic metal price modeling by defining separately the following parameters of each price cycle phase: approximated length, approximated long-term price level and volatility. An net present value-based investment analysis model is applied together with Monte Carlo simulation.

Findings

It is plausible to combine managerial estimates about metal price trends and cycles with stochastic modeling for shorter term and to include the information into investment analysis. The results show that the difference between the proposed process and the commonly used mean reverting process is remarkable in terms of decision-making implications.

Originality/value

The proposed method allows the inclusion of more relevant information into the metal price modeling used in mining investment analysis. Results suggest that the cyclical nature of metal prices affects project value of metal mining projects, and it should be considered when making irreversible investment decisions. The proposed method can be generalized for any cyclical processes.

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Kybernetes, vol. 46 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 13 May 2014

Haydn Shaughnessy

The author warns that nowadays a company must learn to be “co-productive” with an app developer community, a supplier community, a content community, an advocacy community or a…

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Purpose

The author warns that nowadays a company must learn to be “co-productive” with an app developer community, a supplier community, a content community, an advocacy community or a customer ecosystem in order to stay competitive through continuous innovation. Leaders need new tools to promote informed decisions.

Design/methodology/approach

The article shows how companies monitoring dynamic ecosystem change can develop crowd-based reporting scorecards to guide decision making.

Findings

Increasingly it is the innovations and expertise of the ecosystem, not the talents and resources of the firm, that are crucial to its future wealth generation. But many of the consequences of ecosystem change are, in fact, unmanageable in any traditional sense. An experimental way to identify the uncertainty produced by a dynamic ecosystem offers decision support.

Practical implications

The uncertainty monitoring experiments described in this article can clarify the risk levels and the need for preparatory investments. They offer a high level view of the dynamics of the new market ecosystem environment.

Originality/value

This article offers cutting-edge insights for managers struggling to make decisions about investments related to the dynamic ecosystem of users, suppliers, partners and customers in their companies’ markets.

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Strategy & Leadership, vol. 42 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1087-8572

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Publication date: 1 August 2003

Mikael Collan and Shuhua Liu

The economic life of large investments necessitates constant dynamic managerial actions. To be able to act in an optimal way in the dynamic management of large investments…

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The economic life of large investments necessitates constant dynamic managerial actions. To be able to act in an optimal way in the dynamic management of large investments managers need to have constant access to information about the real time situation of the investment, as well as access to up‐to‐date information about changes in the business environment. Looks at how emerging soft computing technologies will help to provide a better support in such a context and then to frame a support system that will make an integrated application of the technologies. Introduces traditional and advanced methods for capital budgeting and investment decision making, then presents a process view of the real option framework based investment management, and develops a holistic framework for an agent‐facilitated capital budgeting system using a fuzzy real option approach. Discusses how intelligent agents can be applied to collect decision information, and to facilitate the integration of foresight information into capital budgeting process, and how the agents can be constructed. Finally, elaborates on the managerial implications of the proposed decision support technology.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 103 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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Publication date: 9 January 2017

José M. Merigó, Salvador Linares-Mustarós and Joan Carles Ferrer-Comalat

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Kybernetes, vol. 46 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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