Bent Flyvbjerg

Research interests

Publications

• Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview

  Project Management Journal · 2021 · 10.1177/87569728211049046

• Five things you should know about cost overrun

  Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice · 2018 · 10.1016/j.tra.2018.07.013

• Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22333

• Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

  Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473915480.n40

• Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

  Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473915480.n40

• What you Should Know about Megaprojects and Why: An Overview

  Project Management Journal · 2014 · 10.1002/pmj.21409

• Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014 · 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.069

• Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier than You Think

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2013 · 10.2139/ssrn.2229735

• Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie?

  Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) · 2013 · 10.48550/arxiv.1303.6604

• Different cost performance: different determinants?

  Transport Policy · 2012 · 10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.04.002

• Cost Overruns in Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness

  European journal of transport and infrastructure research · 2010 · 10.18757/ejtir.2010.10.1.2864

• Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it

  Oxford Review of Economic Policy · 2009 · 10.1093/oxrep/grp024

• Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster

  California Management Review · 2009 · 10.2307/41166485

• Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice

  European Planning Studies · 2007 · 10.1080/09654310701747936

• From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right

  Project Management Journal · 2006 · 10.1177/875697280603700302

• Handbook of organization studies

  · 2006

• Policy And Planning For Large Infrastructure Projects : Problems, Causes, Cures

  Environment and Planning B Planning and Design · 2005 · 10.1068/b32111

• How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects?: The Case of Transportation

  Journal of the American Planning Association · 2005 · 10.1080/01944360508976688

• Phronetic planning research: theoretical and methodological reflections

  Planning Theory & Practice · 2004 · 10.1080/1464935042000250195

• What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?

  Transport Reviews · 2004 · 10.1080/0144164032000080494a

• Megaprojects and Risk

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107050891

• How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects?

  Transport Reviews · 2003 · 10.1080/01441640309904

• Bringing Power to Planning Research

  Journal of Planning Education and Research · 2002 · 10.1177/0739456x0202100401

• Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again

  Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2002 · 10.2307/3090087

• Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects

  Transport Policy · 2002 · 10.1016/s0967-070x(02)00014-8

• Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again

  Southern Economic Journal · 2002 · 10.2307/1061731

• Making Social Science Matter

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511810503

• Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice.

  Social Forces · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.2307/3005579

• Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for Civil Society?

  British Journal of Sociology · 1998 · 10.2307/591310

• Rationality and Power

  VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) · 1998

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