Only if there are better equilibriums which can be moved to by attacking sunk cost—otherwise they are simply the price of doing business.
(I only found two studies bearing on it, neither of which were optimistic: the study finding sunk costs encouraged coordination and the bank study finding attacking sunk cost resulted in deception and falsification of internal metrics.)
What’s not clear about it? That’s the idea.
Only if there are better equilibriums which can be moved to by attacking sunk cost—otherwise they are simply the price of doing business.
(I only found two studies bearing on it, neither of which were optimistic: the study finding sunk costs encouraged coordination and the bank study finding attacking sunk cost resulted in deception and falsification of internal metrics.)