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2026

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Overview

Bent Flyvbjerg is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans decision sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as management science and operations research, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, strategy and management, and safety research.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas including complex systems and decision making, construction project management and performance, sport and mega-event impacts, sports analytics and performance, experimental behavioral economics studies, disaster management and resilience, and innovation and knowledge management.

Flyvbjerg's recent academic papers include:

  • Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview (2021), published in Project Management Journal
  • The law of regression to the tail: How to survive Covid-19, the climate crisis, and other disasters (2020), published in Environmental Science & Policy
  • The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution (2022), published in Journal of Management Information Systems
  • Governing Large Projects: A Three-Stage Process to Get It Right (2023), published in Academy of Management Perspectives
  • How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies (2022), published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Flyvbjerg frequently collaborates with other researchers, most notably with:

  • Alexander Budzier
  • Jon Aaen
  • Mark Keil
  • Daniel Lunn

Their publications appear regularly in various venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Project Management Journal
  • Academy of Management Perspectives
  • Environmental Science & Policy

Regarding book publications, Flyvbjerg has at least one book published through King's College London titled How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors that Determine the Fate of Every Project from Home Renovations to Space Exploration, and Everything in Between (2023).

Best Publications

  • Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

    Bent Flyvbjerg

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

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Steven L. Sampson

  • Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Niels Bruzelius;Werner Rothengatter

  • Making Social Science Matter

    Bent Flyvbjerg

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

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Soren L. Buhl

  • What You Should Know About Megaprojects and Why: An Overview

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • RATIONALITY AND POWER: DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE

    Bent Flyvbjerg

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

    Atif Ansar;Bent Flyvbjerg;Alexander Budzier;Daniel Lunn

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

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Søren L. Buhl

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

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Soren L. Buhl

  • Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for civil society?

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Phronetic Planning Research: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

    Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse;Eugenio Y. Arima;Thomas Dunne;Edward Park

  • What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Mette K. Skamris Holm;Soren L. Buhl

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

    Dan E. Miller;Bent Flyvbjerg;Steven Sampson

  • From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right

    Bent Flyvbjerg

  • Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China

    Atif Ansar;Bent Flyvbjerg;Alexander Budzier;Daniel Lunn

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

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Massimo Garbuio;Dan Lovallo

  • Underskattade kostnader i infrastrukturprojekt: felräkning eller lögn? (Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie?)

    Bent Flyvbjerg;Bent Flyvbjerg;Søren L. Buhl;Mette Skamris Holm

Frequent Co-Authors

Petter Næss
Petter Næss Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Richard B. Norgaard
Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Dunne
Thomas Dunne University of California, Santa Barbara
Naziano Filizola
Naziano Filizola Federal University of Amazonas
Victor R. Baker
Victor R. Baker University of Arizona
Paul A. Baker
Paul A. Baker Duke University

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