Effects of absolute and relative sunk costs on the decision to persist with a course of action
- 28 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Vol. 48 (1) , 55-69
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-5978(91)90005-e
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