{
  "title": "Stopping a project: what research says about escalation of commitment",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/management-complexe-quand-arreter-un-projet-a-lausanne-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-08-27",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Persevering with a difficult project can be rational. Defending it because substantial resources have already been invested follows a different logic, which research helps distinguish.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "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 a struggling project should be stopped, or that its sponsor should be excluded from all subsequent decisions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not settle",
      "point": "These studies draw in part on experimental settings and do not establish a universal stopping threshold for organisational projects."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "In Lausanne, one application of the “Management complexe” programme could be to test a continuation record for projects within a medtech company, a higher education partnership, an international sports organisation or a scale-up in the Lake Geneva region."
    }
  ],
  "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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