Bent Flyvbjerg
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Danish economic geographer
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- PhD Economics Aalborg University
- Masters Economics Aalborg University
- Bachelors Economics Aalborg University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer. He was the First BT Professor and Inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and Chair of Major Program Management at the IT University of Copenhagen. He was previously Professor of Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and Chair of Infrastructure Policy and Planning at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Published Works
- Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research (2006) (12298)
- Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again (2001) (1924)
- Megaprojects and Risk. An Anatomy of Ambition (2003) (1806)
- Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? (2002) (1521)
- Making Social Science Matter (2001) (1251)
- What you Should Know about Megaprojects and Why: An Overview (2014) (1064)
- How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects?: The Case of Transportation (2005) (764)
- How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? (2003) (722)
- What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? (2004) (630)
- Should We Build More Large Dams? The Actual Costs of Hydropower Megaproject Development (2014) (591)
- RATIONALITY AND POWER: DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE (1999) (564)
- Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin (2017) (474)
- Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures (2005) (474)
- Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built-And What We Can Do About it (2009) (469)
- Phronetic planning research: theoretical and methodological reflections (2004) (452)
- From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right (2006) (388)
- Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster (2009) (382)
- Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice (2008) (361)
- Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier than You Think (2011) (303)
- Хабермас и Фуко: Теоретики Гражданского Общества (Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for Civil Society?) (1998) (286)
- Planning and Foucault: In Search of the Dark Side of Planning Theory (2001) (281)
- Real social science: Applied phronesis (2012) (261)
- Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China (2016) (257)
- Cost Overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness (2010) (236)
- Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts (2006) (235)
- Big decisions, big risks: improving accountability in mega projects (1998) (228)
- Megaprojects and Risk (2003) (218)
- Procedures for Dealing with Optimism Bias in Transport Planning (2004) (217)
- Bringing Power to Planning Research (2002) (211)
- Decision-making on mega-projects: Cost–benefit analysis, planning, and innovation (2008) (208)
- Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View (2013) (181)
- Making Organization Research Matter: Power, Values, and Phronesis (2006) (180)
- Over Budget, Over Time, Over and Over Again: Managing Major Projects (2011) (173)
- Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure (2007) (168)
- Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects (1997) (167)
- Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects (2012) (151)
- The Dark Side of Planning: Rationality and 'Realrationalität' (1996) (149)
- Delusions of Success (2003) (142)
- Olympic Proportions: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Olympics 1960-2012 (2012) (137)
- Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval (2005) (132)
- Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling (2005) (131)
- Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases (2012) (130)
- Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for civil society? (1998) (113)
- Bringing Power to Planning Research: One Researcher's Praxis Story (2002) (106)
- Five Things You Should Know about Cost Overrun (2018) (104)
- Lock-in and its Influence on the Project Performance of Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Investigating the Way in Which Lock-in Can Emerge and Affect Cost Overruns (2010) (98)
- Decision-Making On Mega-Projects (2008) (98)
- Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide (2012) (82)
- The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games (2016) (77)
- Introduction: The Iron Law of Megaproject Management (2017) (77)
- Megaproject Policy and Planning: Problems, Causes, Cures (2007) (75)
- Social science that matters (2006) (72)
- Cost Underestimation in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? (2004) (69)
- The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large (2015) (68)
- A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science (2004) (68)
- Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail (2008) (66)
- The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman's Hiding Hand (2016) (65)
- Megaprojects and Risk: List of tables (2003) (64)
- Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Science Fails and How It Can Succeed Again (2003) (60)
- Do Road Planners Produce More ‘Honest Numbers’ than Rail Planners? An Analysis of Accuracy in Road‐traffic Forecasts in Cities versus Peripheral Regions (2006) (55)
- Accuracy of Traffic Forecasts and Cost Estimates on Large Transportation Projects (1996) (54)
- Making Organization Research (2006) (51)
- Aristotle, Foucault and Progressive Phronesis: Outline of an Applied Ethics for Sustainable Development (1992) (50)
- Ideal Theory, Real Rationality: Habermas Versus Foucault and Nietzsche (2000) (49)
- Qualitative InquiryFlyvbjerg / Case-Study Research Misunderstandings Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research (2006) (48)
- Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs (2008) (46)
- Making Social Science Matter: Frontmatter (2001) (43)
- How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association (2013) (43)
- Sustaining Non-Rationalized Practices: Body-Mind, Power, and Situational Ethics. An Interview with Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus (1990) (40)
- Introduction: New Directions in Social Science (2012) (38)
- Do classics exist in megaproject management (2017) (37)
- Making-Sense of the Impact and Importance of Outliers in Project Management through the Use of Power Laws (2013) (36)
- Double Whammy – How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent (2011) (35)
- The Lying Game (2003) (34)
- Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research (2012) (34)
- Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale (2016) (33)
- Why Mass Media Matter and How to Work with Them: Phronesis and Megaprojects (2012) (32)
- Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development (2009) (32)
- Political Political Science: A Phronetic Approach (2013) (32)
- Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up (2020) (32)
- Fem misforståelser om casestudiet (Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research) (2010) (32)
- Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures (2011) (30)
- Important Next Steps in Phronetic Social Science (2012) (28)
- Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman (2003) (28)
- Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects (2016) (27)
- Truth and Lies about Megaprojects (2007) (26)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Conventional megaproject development (2003) (25)
- Bringing Power to Planning Research: One Researcher's Story (2002) (23)
- Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier than You Think (2011) (21)
- Making organization research matter (2006) (21)
- Critical Essays in Planning Theory (2009) (21)
- Beyond the Limits of Planning Theory: Response to My Critics (2001) (20)
- The law of regression to the tail: How to survive Covid-19, the climate crisis, and other disasters (2020) (20)
- Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? (2018) (20)
- Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview (2021) (19)
- Cost overruns in large-scale transportation infrastructure projects: Which explanations can be given? (2008) (19)
- Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, and Curses (2011) (19)
- Making Social Science Matter: Context counts (2001) (19)
- Qualitative Research Practice (2007) (19)
- Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects (2012) (18)
- Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say about IT Project Risk in the Public Sector (2012) (18)
- On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research (2019) (17)
- Reflections on phronetic social science: a dialogue between Stewart Clegg, Bent Flyvbjerg and Mark Haugaard (2014) (17)
- Megaproject Planning and Management: Essential Readings (2014) (17)
- Habermas and Foucault (2000) (14)
- Mega-Projects' Cost Performance and Lock-In: Problems and Solutions (2013) (14)
- Sustaining Non-Rationalized Practices: The Body, Power and Situational Ethics (1991) (13)
- Megaprojects and Risk: A Conversation with Bent Flyvbjerg (2004) (13)
- The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It (2021) (13)
- Making Political Science Matter (2022) (12)
- Survival of the Un-fittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built - and What We Can Do about It (2009) (12)
- Design by deception (2005) (11)
- Phronetic Organizational Research (2008) (11)
- Quandaries in meta-theory: against pluralism (2002) (11)
- Combating corruption, encouraging ethics (2007) (10)
- Tension Points: Learning to Make Social Science Matter (2016) (10)
- Call for Papers - Special issue on “Classics in Megaproject Management" (2015) (10)
- Tension points in real social science: A response (2013) (9)
- Mega Delusional: The Curse of the Megaproject (2013) (9)
- Why Do Projects Fail (2015) (9)
- Aristotele, foucault and progressive phronesis (1992) (9)
- Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects (2007) (9)
- Eliminating bias in early project development through reference class forecasting and good governance (2007) (9)
- Introduction: Scope of the Book (2008) (8)
- Big Is Fragile (2017) (8)
- Socrates Didn't Like the Case Method: Why Should You? (1999) (8)
- Decision Making and Major Transport Infrastructure Projects: The Role of Project Ownership (2015) (8)
- Response to Remington (2003) (7)
- Cinco equívocos sobre la investigación basada en estudios de caso (2005) (7)
- Large Transport Infrastructure Projects: Improving Institutions and Decision Making (2010) (7)
- Lock-in and its influence on project performance of large-scale transportation infrastructure projects (2009) (7)
- Did Megaproject Research Pioneer Behavioral Economics? The Case of Albert O. Hirschman (2017) (7)
- How optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation in early project development undermine implementation (2007) (7)
- Planning in the 33 years after "1984" (1982) (7)
- Table of Contents for: The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management (2017) (6)
- Evaluation of public transport: Method for application in open planning (1986) (6)
- Big Is Fragile: Why the UK Government Should Not Approve the Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station (2016) (5)
- "FEHMARN BELT: ISSUES OF ACCOUNTABILITY--LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING APPRAISAL OF A FIXED LINK ACROSS FEHMARN BELT" (1995) (5)
- Megaproject planning and management: Essential readings, vols 1-2 (2014) (4)
- Misrepresentation Drives Projects (2004) (4)
- A Materialistic Concept of Planning and Participation (1981) (4)
- Credibility Problem for Transit: Response to Millar (2005) (4)
- Report to the Independent Board Committee (2014) (3)
- Making Social Science Matter: The power of example (2001) (3)
- The Aalborg Study: Case Selection and Data Collection: Research Report (1997) (3)
- Habermas y Foucault: ¿pensadores de la sociedad civil? (Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for Civil Society?) (1999) (3)
- Projects, Power, and Politics: A Conversation with Bent Flyvbjerg (2014) (3)
- Five Misunderstandings about Case Study Research, Corrected (2012) (3)
- Case Studiet Som Forskningsmetode (The Case Study as Research Method) (1988) (3)
- Oral Evidence: The Government’s Management of Major Projects (2018) (3)
- Did Megaproject Research Pioneer Behavioral Economics (2017) (3)
- The Lack of Technology Assessment in Relation to Big Infrastructural Decisions (1992) (3)
- Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts: Part 2 (2007) (3)
- Megaproject policy and planning (2007) (3)
- Fehmarn Belt: Issues of Accountability (1995) (3)
- The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution (2022) (3)
- BOOK REVIEW: Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition (2004) (3)
- Beyond the megaprojects paradox (2003) (3)
- The project of planning: An interview with John Friedmann (1986) (3)
- More on the Dark Side of Planning: Response to Richard Bolan (2015) (3)
- Works Title Damming the Rivers of the Amazon Basin (2017) (2)
- Cost Underestimation in Public Works Projects (2004) (2)
- Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage (2018) (2)
- Theorizing outliers: explaining variation in IT project performance (2014) (2)
- Citizen Participation and Openness in Transportation Planning (1983) (2)
- The Project Interview (2013) (2)
- Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (2018) (2)
- Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project (2018) (2)
- Making Social Science Matter: The Science Wars: a way out (2001) (2)
- Critics Don't Understand Behavioral Science (2018) (2)
- Heuristics for Masterbuilders: Fast and Frugal Ways to Become a Better Project Leader (2022) (2)
- THE OPEN FORMAT AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING (1984) (2)
- Governing Large Projects: A Three-Stage Process to Get It Right (2023) (2)
- Making Social Science Matter: Is theory possible in social science? (2001) (2)
- Planning theory: theoretical considerations on the analysis of public policy and planning (1983) (2)
- Thinkers for Civil Society (1998) (2)
- Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled (2021) (2)
- Response to Phil Hodkinson (2002) (1)
- How to Get Your Business Case Right, by Using Kahneman's Outside View (2016) (1)
- Letters to the Editor: Credibility Problem for Transit: Response to Millar (2005) (1)
- Road Work Ahead: The Emerging Revolution in the Road Construction Industry (2021) (1)
- AI in Action: How the Hong Kong Development Bureau Built the PSS, an Early-Warning-Sign System for Public Works Projects (2022) (1)
- Lager Veiplanleggere Ærligere Prognoser Enn Jernbaneplanleggere? (Do Road Planners Produce More 'Honest Numbers' than Rail Planners?) (2006) (1)
- The Power of Rationality is Embedded in Stable Power Relations Rather Than in Confrontations (1999) (1)
- Planning theory, power and progressive phronesis. Reply to Stefano Moroni (1993) (1)
- Megaprojects and Risk: The megaprojects paradox (2003) (1)
- Implementation and the choice of evaluation methods (1984) (1)
- Ending the Flood of Megadams (2014) (1)
- Social and technological issues in transportation planning (1984) (1)
- Reference Class Forecasting (RCF) (2007) (1)
- Regression to the Tail: The Law Governing Covid-19, other Catastrophic Risks, and Their Mitigation (2020) (1)
- Making Social Science Matter: Values in social and political inquiry (2001) (1)
- 1 Introduction : new directions in social science (2012) (1)
- Perché un progetto IT può essere più rischioso di quanto si creda (Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier than You Think) (2011) (1)
- Making sociology matter: Phronetic sociology as public sociology (2005) (1)
- Correction to: How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies (2022) (1)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Environmental impacts and risks (2003) (1)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Appendix. Risk and accountability at work: a case study (2003) (0)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Accountable megaproject decision making (2003) (0)
- Making Social Science Matter: The significance of conflict and power to social science (2001) (0)
- En censureret students eventyr (Adventures of a Censored Student) (1999) (0)
- Book Notes (2012) (0)
- Handbook of organization studies (2006) (0)
- Making Social Science Matter: Empowering Aristotle (2001) (0)
- Damming the rivers of the Amazon Basin 1 (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Throw me the money (2013) (0)
- Planning Theory, Power and Progressive Phronesis (1993) (0)
- How big plans get derailed (2005) (0)
- Foreword to Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa: The Planner in Dirty Shoes (2014) (0)
- Making Social Science Matter: Notes (2001) (0)
- Beyond the Limits of Planning Theory (2004) (0)
- Large Transport Infrastructure Projects (2010) (0)
- Socio-political analysis of French transport policies: the state of practice (2011) (0)
- A Platform Approach to Space Exploration (2022) (0)
- Ten Heuristics that Make Leaders of Projects and Programs Successful (2018) (0)
- Our biggest schemes work out so badly. Can you explain the reason for this (2013) (0)
- Peer Review of Research Programme Proposal on Sustainable Transport Systems (1996) (0)
- Response to Todd Landman (2008) (0)
- The role of lock-in in cost overruns of large-scale transportation infrastructure projects (2008) (0)
- Hitch-Hiking Kan Sikre Co2-Reduktioner! (Policy 'Hitch-Hiking' May Ensure CO2-Reductions) (2003) (0)
- Making Social Science Matter: Rationality, body, and intuition in human learning (2001) (0)
- Paper on the evaluation of traffic analyses and forecasts, Femer Bælt: The Expert Group concerning traffic forecasts. Conference on the decision basis for the Femer Bælt connection (2000) (0)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Dealing with risk (2003) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Book Reviews-Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How lt Can Succeed Again (2004) (0)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Substance and spin in megaproject economics (2003) (0)
- Knowledge games: the achievement of ignorance in managing Olympic and Commonwealth mega-events (2013) (0)
- Regional and economic growth effects (2003) (0)
- Verbatim report of a hearing held by the temporary committee on infrastructure projects on 16 September 2004 in the Hearing Room at the Logement in The Hague (2004) (0)
- Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research Bent Flyvbjerg (2016) (0)
- Megaprojects and Risk: A calamitous history of cost overrun (2003) (0)
- Why social science has failed as science (2001) (0)
- IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology (2013) (0)
- Urban planning today (2006) (0)
- The Science Wars (2001) (0)
- The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research (2008) (0)
- Making Social Science Matter: Examples and illustrations: narratives of value and power (2001) (0)
- Sustaining Non-Rationalized Practice: Body-Mind, Power and Situational Ethics : An Interview with Hubert & Stuart Dryfus : Czech translation: Oto Novotny (1993) (0)
- Hitch-hiking kan sikre CO2-reduktioner! (2003) (0)
- Case-study in context of quality/quantity problematic (2004) (0)
- Unsere Grossprojekte Laufen so Schlecht. Können Sie Uns Erklären, Woran Das Liegt? (Our Biggest Schemes Work Out So Badly. Can You Explain the Reason for This?) An Interview with Bent Flyvbjerg (2013) (0)
- On misunderstandings in connection with case-studies (2005) (0)
- Sanning och lögn om megaprojekt (Truth and Lies about Megaprojects) (2007) (0)
- Good Practice Lessons from the Urban Traffic Project, Denmark (2002) (0)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Four instruments of accountability (2003) (0)
- Statens rolle helt central (1990) (0)
- Erfaringer Fra 1.471 It-Projekter (Experience from 1,471 IT Projects) (2012) (0)
- Facts About Fehmarn Belt: Fact-finding Study on a Fixed Link Across Fehmarn Belt (1995) (0)
- Sustaining Non-Rationalized Practices: Body-Mind, Power and Situational Ethics : An Interview with Hubert & Stuart Dryfus : Chinese translation: Jessica Wen-hui Chang (1994) (0)
- About this Research Review (2014) (0)
- Preface to the Chinese Edition of Megaprojects and Risk (2018) (0)
- Citizen Participation under Attack (1986) (0)
- Theoretical and Methodological Reflections Draft 7 . 0 (0)
- The demand for megaprojects (2003) (0)
- Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? (Introduction) (2017) (0)
- The High Price of Rebuilding Iraq (2003) (0)
- Oral evidence: The Government’s Management ofMajor Projects, HC 1631 (2018) (0)
- Making Social Science Matter: Methodological guidelines for a reformed social science (2001) (0)
- Table of Contents for: Megaproject Planning and Management: Essential Readings (2014) (0)
- Habermas y Foucault: "Pensadores de la sociedad civil?": Spanish translation by Lorena Murillo (2001) (0)
- Getting the Cost Right and Dealing with Optimism Bias (2004) (0)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Lessons of privatisation (2003) (0)
- Megaprojects and Risk: Bibliography (2003) (0)
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