{
  "title": "“We have already invested too much”: when should a project be stopped?",
  "url": "https://shr.swiss/blog/management-complexe-quand-arreter-un-projet-deja-tres-investi-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-06-03",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://shr.swiss",
    "address": "184 route de Saint-Julien, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Resources already committed can become an argument for continuing a project that no longer warrants them. How can managers distinguish useful persistence from escalating commitment?",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Complex Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lucerne",
    "region": "Lucerne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "1. What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "2. The sunk cost mechanism",
      "point": "Hal R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "3. The hasty conclusion: stop as soon as results disappoint",
      "point": "These studies do not demonstrate that persistence is always irrational."
    },
    {
      "heading": "4. The limits of the evidence and of project reviews",
      "point": "These studies draw in part on experimental situations and decision scenarios that do not reproduce all organisational interdependencies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "5. A practical check in Lucerne",
      "point": "In the canton of Lucerne, tourism, hospitality, regional financial services and industrial SMEs operate alongside many family-run businesses with short decision paths and strong regional ties, so close relationships and personal responsibility can intersect in project decisions."
    }
  ],
  "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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