{
  "title": "A struggling project: when does perseverance become a management trap?",
  "url": "https://shr.swiss/blog/projet-en-difficulte-quand-perseverer-devient-il-un-piege-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-05-24",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://shr.swiss",
    "address": "184 route de Saint-Julien, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Defending a project may reflect a well-founded conviction or a need to justify an earlier decision. Research on escalation of commitment helps distinguish these two motives.",
  "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 mechanism: justifying yesterday with tomorrow's resources",
      "point": "Joel Brockner (1992, Academy of Management Review) examines explanations for escalation of commitment, highlighting the role of self-justification."
    },
    {
      "heading": "3. The hasty conclusion: projects should be stopped sooner",
      "point": "These studies do not establish that a struggling project should be abandoned."
    },
    {
      "heading": "4. The limits of the evidence and of project reviews",
      "point": "The experimental setting does not reproduce all the interdependencies, contractual obligations and uncertainties of a real organisation."
    },
    {
      "heading": "5. A practical check in Lucerne",
      "point": "In Lucerne, tourism, hospitality, regional financial services and industrial SMEs form a business environment where family ownership, short decision-making channels and strong regional ties can closely associate a decision with its sponsor."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Brockner",
      "year": "1992",
      "source": "Academy of Management Review"
    }
  ],
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