Using Real Options to Evaluate Special Orders

The aim of this article is the comparison of mutually exclusive special orders/contracts of different duration under uncertainty. Part 1, states the problem of comparing mutually exclusive orders and comments on existing methods found in literature. Part 2 describes our proposed methodology while parts 3 and 4 present numerical illustrations of our method which is applied to different scenarios. The article concludes with part 5 which summarises the key results of our analysis.