Retirement Decisions

Activities don't continue forever. There are many products and services that were available at one time that aren't available today, at least not in the same form. You can't send a telegram or buy a new rotary-dial telephone today. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to buy a new copy of DOS 3.0 from Microsoft or a new 80286 processor chip from Intel. Eventually a company needs to decide whether to continue an activity or stop it altogether. This is the essence of a retirement (abandonment) decision.

Strictly speaking, retirement decisions only involve the defender: there are no challengers. The mutually exclusive alternatives in a retirement decision analysis are usually as follows:

  • Retire immediately.

  • Continue the ...

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