{
  "title": "Finance for non-financial managers in the canton of Vaud: when should you stop funding a project?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/finance-pour-non-financiers-vaud-quand-arreter-financer-projet-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-23",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Money already invested is not sufficient reason to keep funding a project. How can managers distinguish reasonable persistence from decisions driven by past expenditure?",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Finance for Non-Financial Managers",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "1. What the literature establishes: the influence of sunk costs",
      "point": "Hal R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "2. A complementary mechanism: defending the initial decision",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "3. The hasty conclusion: every delay requires cancellation",
      "point": "These studies do not imply that a disappointing project should automatically be abandoned."
    },
    {
      "heading": "4. The limits of the evidence and budget monitoring",
      "point": "These experimental studies measure neither the frequency of this phenomenon in the canton of Vaud nor its magnitude in medtech or sports projects."
    },
    {
      "heading": "5. A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "Within the SHR “Finance for non-financial managers” programme, an exercise applicable in Lausanne is to prepare a decision sheet for a hypothetical digital platform project at an international sports organisation."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Blumer",
      "year": "1985",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 449,
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/finance-pour-non-financiers-vaud-quand-arreter-financer-projet-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-finance-pour-non-financiers-lausanne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/lausanne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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