Bericht

Corporate capital budgeting: Success factors from a behavioral perspective

Capital budgeting or investment decisions have an essential influence on companies' performance. Instead of a rational choice, capital budgeting might be regarded as a process of reality construction. Research suggests that decision makers have only limited control over their own cognitive biases in this construction process. It is in this perspective that this paper intends to answer the following research question: What are behavioral determinants for a successful capital-budgeting decision process? The authors identify and discuss three behavioral success factors (reflective prudence, critical communication and outcome independence) for five stages of the capital budgeting process against the backdrop of the findings of the managerial and organizational cognition theory and cognitive psychology.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Beiträge zur Controlling-Forschung ; No. 21

Classification
Management
Subject
Investitionsrechnung
Verhaltensökonomik
Kognition
Erkenntnistheorie
Organisationale Entscheidung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schönbohm, Avo
Zahn, Anastasia
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling
(where)
Kaiserslautern
(when)
2012

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  • Bericht

Associated

  • Schönbohm, Avo
  • Zahn, Anastasia
  • Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling

Time of origin

  • 2012

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