{
  "title": "When should a project in Berne stop, despite the investment already made?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-quand-arreter-un-projet-malgre-les-investissements-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-09-13",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An expensive project is not necessarily one worth continuing. Research distinguishes the expected value of continuing from the need to justify past decisions.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "When past expenditure becomes an argument",
      "point": "Hal R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that projects should stop as soon as results disappoint, or that the decision should always be assigned to someone outside the project."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not settle",
      "point": "These classic studies identify decision-making tendencies but provide no universal stopping threshold for a public programme or an industrial development project."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "As part of the “Management complexe” programme, SHR can propose a prospective exercise: for four weeks, document every decision to continue a selected project in a Berne-based organisation, whether it concerns a federal service, a public health initiative, a telecommunications network or a precision production line."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Blumer",
      "year": "1985",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 422,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Complex-Management-Bern-berne-quand-arreter-un-projet-malgre-les-investissements-en.jpg?v=4",
  "translations": {
    "fr": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-quand-arreter-un-projet-malgre-les-investissements",
    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-quand-arreter-un-projet-malgre-les-investissements-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-quand-arreter-un-projet-malgre-les-investissements-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/berne-quand-arreter-un-projet-malgre-les-investissements-it"
  },
  "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."
}