Books
Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman, and Sandford Schram, eds., Real Social
Science: Applied Phronesis. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Bert van Wee, eds., Decision-Making On Mega-Projects: Cost–benefit Analysis, Planning, and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2008.
Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter, Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Bent Flyvbjerg, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice. The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Journal articles
"Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier than You Think." Co-author: Alexander Budzier. Harvard Business Review, September 2011, pp. 601-603; selected by HBR as leading article for the "Ideas Watch" section, featuring the hottest new ideas in business and management.
"Transferable Knowledge: An Interview with Bent Flyvbjerg," interview by Inge Mette Kirkeby, Architectural Research Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, 2011, pp. 9-14.
"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." Co-authors: Chantal C. Cantarelli, Bert van Wee, and Eric J. E. Molin. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2010, volume 37, pp. 792-807.
"Large Transport Infrastructure Projects: Improving Institutions and Decision Making." Co-author Bert van Wee. Editorial, European Journal of Transport Infrastructure Research, vol. 10, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 1-4.
"Cost Overruns in Large-scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness." Co-authors: Chantal C. Cantarelli, Eric J.E. Molin, and Bert van Wee. European Journal of Transport Infrastructure Research, vol. 10, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 5-18.
"Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built—And What We Can Do about It." Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 25, no. 3, 2009, pp. 344–367.
"Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster." Co-authors: Massimo Garbuio and Dan Lovallo. California Management Review, vol. 51, no. 2, Winter 2009, pp. 170-193.
"Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 34, 2007, pp. 578-597. This article was awarded the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Prize for Best Published Paper, July 2008.
"Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail." Principal author: Bent Flyvbjerg; co-authors: Nils Bruzelius and Bert van Wee. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, vol. 8, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 17-30.
"Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice." European Planning Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, January 2008, pp. 3-21.
"Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects." Guest editorial. Co-author: Hugo Priemus. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, vol. 34, 2007, pp. 576-577.
"Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure." Transportation Planning and Technology, vol. 30, no. 1, February 2007, pp. 9-30.
"From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right." Project Management Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, August 2006, pp. 5-15.
"Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research." Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 12, no. 2, April 2006, pp. 219-245.
"Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling." Transportation Research A, vol. 39, no. 6, July 2005, pp. 522-530.
"Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval." Harvard Design Magazine, no. 22, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 50-59.
"How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation." Principal author: Bent Flyvbjerg; co-authors: Mette Skamris Holm and Søren L. Buhl. Journal of the American Planning Association, vol. 71, no. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 131-146.
Book chapters
"Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for Civil Society?”. In Stewart R. Clegg and Mark Haugaard, eds., Power and Organizations. London: Sage, forthcoming.
"Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences, Cures." Co-author Eamonn Molloy. In Susan Rose-Ackerman and Tina Soreide, eds., International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011, pp. 81-107.
"Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, and Curses." In Thomas L. Harper, Michael Hibbard, Heloisa Costa, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, eds., Dialogues in Urban Regional Planning. Volume 4, New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 223-248.
"Making Social Science Matter." Chapter 1 in Georgios Papanagnou, ed., Social Science and Policy Challenges: Democracy, Values and Capacities. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2011, pp. 25-56.
"Case Study." In Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds., The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011, pp. 301-316.
"Over Budget, Over Time, Over and Over Again: Managing Major Projects." In Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Jonas Söderlund, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Project Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 321-344.
"Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development." In Terry Williams, Knut Samset and Kjell Sunnevag, eds., Making Essential Choices with Scant Information: Front-end Decision Making in Major Projects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 147-168.
"Phronetic Organizational Research." In Richard Thorpe and Robin Holt, eds., The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008, pp. 153-155.
"Making Sociology Matter: Phronetic Sociology as Public Sociology." In Michael Hviid Jacobsen, ed., Public Sociology. Aalborg University Press, 2008, pp. 77-117.
"Introduction: Scope of the Book." Co-authors Hugo Priemus and Bert van Wee. In Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Bert van Wee, eds., Decision-Making On Mega-Projects: Cost-benefit Analysis, Planning, and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK and Northamton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 1-20.
"Public Planning of Mega-projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs." In Hugo Priemus, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Bert van Wee, eds., Decision-Making On Mega-Projects: Cost-benefit Analysis, Planning, and Innovation. Cheltenham, UK and Northamton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 120-144.
"How Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Early Project Development Undermine Implementation." In Kjell J. Sunnevåg, ed., Beslutninger på svakt informasjonsgrunnlag: Tilnærminger og utfordringer i projekters tidlige fase (Decisions based on weak information: Approaches and challenges in the early phase of projects). Trondheim, Norway: Concept Program, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007, pp. 41-55.
"Eliminating Bias in Early Project Development through Reference Class Forecasting and Good Governance." In Kjell J. Sunnevåg, ed., Beslutninger på svakt informasjonsgrunnlag: Tilnærminger og utfordringer i projekters tidlige fase (Decisions based on weak information: Approaches and challenges in the early phase of projects). Trondheim, Norway: Concept Program, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007, pp. 90-110.
"Megaprojects and Risk." In William L. Richter and Frances Burke, eds., Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics: A Practical Guide to Management Ethics. Second Edition. Principal author: Bent Flyvbjerg; co-authors: Nils Bruzelius and Werner Rothengatter. Published in cooperation with The American Society for Public Administration. Lanham, MA and Plymouth, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, pp. 52-58.
"Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research." In Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium, and David Silverman, eds., Qualitative Research Practice: Concise Paperback Edition. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007, pp. 390-404.
"A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science." In Sanford F. Schram and Brian Caterino, eds., Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method. New York and London: New York University Press, 2006, pp. 56-85.
"Making Organization Research Matter: Power, Values, and Phronesis." In Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Walter R. Nord, eds., The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies. Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, July 2006, pp. 370-387.
Working papers
"Double Whammy – How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent." Co-author Alex Budzier, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, August 2011, 33pp.
"Truth and Lies About Megaprojects." Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, September 2007, 27 pp.
"Megaproject Policy and Planning: Problems, Causes, Cures." Summary of dissertation for higher doctorate in science (Dr. Scient.). Aalborg: Uni.print, Aalborg University, 2007, 62 pp.
"Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures." Policy Research Working Paper, WPS 3781, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2005, 32 pp.
"The High Price of Rebuilding Iraq." Unpublished Op-Ed, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, April 2003.