{
  "title": "In Lugano, when should you stop funding a disappointing project?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/lugano-quand-arreter-un-projet-devenu-difficile-a-defendre-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-04-13",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A disappointing project does not necessarily need to be stopped. Yet resources already committed can make continuing appear more compelling than it is.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lugano",
    "region": "Tessin",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The sunk-cost mechanism",
      "point": "Hal R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a struggling project should be stopped or routinely handed to a new manager."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "These studies provide neither a universal stopping threshold nor an estimate directly transferable to Lugano businesses."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lugano",
      "point": "As an exercise in the “Management complexe” programme, a Lugano team could review every request for additional funding over one month using a form in Italian that separates sunk expenditure, future costs, expected benefits and exit costs."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Blumer",
      "year": "1985",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    }
  ],
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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