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Project Management Research: Were Is It Going?, Bent Flyvbjerg, Workshop

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Description

Project management research is an academic field with lots of bad ideas, lots of bad data, lots of weak theory, and lots of weak methodology. How did that happen? And how do you get beyond it, to high-quality research, if you happen to be a project management researcher?

Readings:

Flyvbjerg, Bent, 2021, "Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview,"Project Management Journal, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 531–546, free pdf:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3979164.

Flyvbjerg, Bent, Atif Ansar, Alexander Budzier, Søren Buhl, Chantal Cantarelli, Massimo
Garbuio, Carsten Glenting, Mette Skamris Holm, Dan Lovallo, Daniel Lunn, Eric Molin, Arne Rønnest, Allison Stewart, Bert van Wee, 2018, "Five Things You Should Know about Cost Overrun," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 118, December, pp. 174-190, free pdf: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3248999.

Flyvbjerg, Bent, 2021, "Make Megaprojects More Modular," Harvard Business Review,
November-December, pp. 58-63, free pdf:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3937465.

Flyvbjerg, Bent, 2014, "What You Should Know about Megaprojects and Why: An Overview,"Project Management Journal, vol. 45, no. 2, April-May, pp. 6-19, free pdf:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2424835.
Period1 Dec 2022
Event typeWorkshop
LocationCopenhagen, DenmarkShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational