Conceptually, the costs and complications involved in an organization's reversing a policy direction are part of
A)information scarcity.
B)unanticipated consequences.
C)mixed scanning.
D)sunk costs.

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Sunk costs refer to costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered. When an organization reverses a policy direction, it may have to give up investments and resources that have already been spent on implementing and enforcing the policy. These are sunk costs that cannot be recovered, and they can create complications and resistance to policy reversals.

Conceptually, the Costs and Complications Involved in an Organization's Reversing