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Throwing good money after bad: The effect of sunk costs on the decision to escalate commitment to an ongoing project.
Abstract
Les relations fonctionnelles entre les couts et la decision de poursuivre un investissement dans un projet de recherche et de developpement sont examinees avec 407 etudiants en commerce. Les sujets lisent un scenario dans lequel 10%, 30%, 50%, 70% ou 90% d'un budget de 10 millions de dollars ont ete investis. Un groupe doit indiquer s'il est souhaitable d'investir les fonds restants pour finir le projet. Un second groupe indique s'il investirait volontiers un million de dollars de plus pour poursuivre le projet. Le troisieme groupe evalue si le projet donnera des profits
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- Authors
- Garland, H.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 1990
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 728-731
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2010123235
- Cited by
- 338
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 2.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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