Deadlines in Product Development

Deadlines are common in product development and are often felt to be too harsh-many development efforts are still worth continuing at the time of mandated termination. We examine the value of deadlines from the agency-theoretic perspective. We consider a firm that pays an agent to lead product devel...

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Main Author: Zhang, Juanjuan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017-08-31T19:50:55Z.
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