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Towards a Theory of Modular Natives: Explaining Superscaling, China's Greatest Innovation Yet
Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Maria Christodoulou
First, we present a new theory of "modular natives." A modular native is a basic building block that is born modular, e.g., a solar cell. The theory predicts that using modular nat…
Do Projects Learn Across Space and Time? Evidence from the Olympics
Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier
Do projects learn across space and time? The Olympics, among the largest publicly funded programmes in the world, offer a unique empirical setting. Theoretically, the Games seem id…
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution
Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jong Seok Lee +3
If managers assume a normal or near-normal distribution of Information Technology (IT) project cost overruns, as is common, and cost overruns can be shown to follow a power-law dis…