{
  "title": "Troubled projects in Berne: when should investment stop?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-projets-en-difficulte-quand-cesser-investir-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-10-05",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Continuing a disappointing project is not necessarily irrational. Research instead invites us to examine what justifies the next commitment of resources.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "When defending the project means defending one's decision",
      "point": "Joel Brockner (1992, Academy of Management Review) offers a theoretical synthesis in which self-justification plays an important role without fully explaining escalation of commitment."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a project should be stopped as soon as it disappoints, or that its initiator should always be excluded from the decision."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot decide",
      "point": "The experiment by Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "As an application exercise for the “Management complexe” programme, a team in Berne can spend four weeks documenting every request for additional resources for a troubled project: remaining expected benefits, future costs, consequences of stopping and an explicit condition for reassessment."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Brockner",
      "year": "1992",
      "source": "Academy of Management Review"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 426,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Complex-Management-Bern-berne-projets-en-difficulte-quand-cesser-investir-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "fr": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-projets-en-difficulte-quand-cesser-investir",
    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-projets-en-difficulte-quand-cesser-investir-en",
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-management-complexe-berne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}