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In today’s world, there are many decisions to be made at every level of management. Learning to closely examine all benefits, opportunities, costs and risk factors that will affect the decision to launch a project are important skills for decision-makers.
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For completeness purpose, we should indicate that another proposed formula by Saaty (2012) to integrate BO/CR is the additive/reciprocal: B + O + 1/C + 1/R. However, the use of reciprocals has been strongly questioned by Millet and Schoner (2005), who have argued that taking cost and risk reciprocals actually distorts their originally common scale, thereby producing confounding results. In any case, this formula is rarely used in practice and for this reason is not further discussed in this book.
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Mu, E., Pereyra-Rojas, M. (2017). Benefit/Cost Analysis Using AHP. In: Practical Decision Making. SpringerBriefs in Operations Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33861-3_7
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