What Bias Has Been Implicated in Costly and Inefficient Duplication

question 229

Multiple Choice

What bias has been implicated in costly and inefficient duplication of organizational efforts, such as the failure to reuse existing software developed by outside sources?

• A)Framing
• B)Escalation of commitment
• C)Anchoring effect
• D)Not-invented-here bias
• E)Confirmation bias

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