{
  "title": "Crisis management in the canton of Berne: when should an emergency decision be reassessed?",
  "url": "https://shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-crise-canton-berne-reexaminer-decision-urgence-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-15",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An emergency decision can outlast the reasons that justified it. Research on escalating commitment suggests planning for reassessment without confusing revision with indecision.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Crisis Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes: responsibility can sustain commitment",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A second mechanism: rigidity under threat",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion: decisions should change more often",
      "point": "Reassessing a decision does not necessarily mean abandoning it."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limits of the evidence and of traceability",
      "point": "The allocation experiment does not reproduce a real crisis, and the rigidity model is not a specific test of organisations in Berne."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "For SHR’s [crisis management](/formation-gestion-de-crise-berne) programme, one possible exercise in Berne would involve a hypothetical telecommunications outage affecting federal services, healthcare institutions and a precision manufacturer, with a bilingual interface in Biel/Bienne."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Dutton",
      "year": "1981",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 418,
  "image": "https://shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Crisis-Management-Bern-gestion-de-crise-canton-berne-reexaminer-decision-urgence-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "en": "https://shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-crise-canton-berne-reexaminer-decision-urgence-en",
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    "it": "https://shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-crise-canton-berne-reexaminer-decision-urgence-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://shr.swiss/formation-gestion-de-crise-berne",
    "city": "https://shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
    "blog": "https://shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}