{
  "title": "Complex management: when should an industrial project be stopped?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/management-complexe-savoir-arreter-un-projet-a-neuchatel-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-07-10",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Investments already made can influence the decision to continue a project. Research suggests distinguishing the value of the next test from the need to justify earlier ones.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The weight of what cannot be recovered",
      "point": "Hal R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that a struggling project should be stopped as soon as past investment is invoked."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these findings cannot decide",
      "point": "These studies provide no validated stopping threshold for a watch manufacturer or a microelectronics business in Neuchâtel."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "In a Neuchâtel microtechnology, watchmaking or precision microelectronics business, an exercise associated with the “Management complexe” programme could involve documenting each authorisation for an additional test in a dated record."
    }
  ],
  "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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