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Improving the risk quantification under behavioural tendencies: a tale of construction projects

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posted on 2018-04-01, 00:00 authored by M U Farooq, Jamal ThaheemJamal Thaheem, H Arshad
Complex construction projects are risky owing to several features and factors. Their management involves risk assessment which is subjected to various behavioural tendencies and the existing body of knowledge lacks appropriate methods to quantify these effects. The prevalent standard model of Expected Utility Theory does not differentiate between threat and opportunity, resulting into an identical estimation for both facets of risk. This limitation was addressed by Prospect Theory which better captures risk preferences. However, construction industry still relies upon conventional methods of risk assessment. The current study introduces a weighting function to better quantify the cognitive errors in construction risk assessment by adjusting the over- and under-estimation. In doing so, detailed scenario-based, semi-structured interviews are conducted engaging senior professionals. It is found that, typically, opportunities are underestimated by 7.5% and threats are overestimated by 8%. Integrating these findings into risk response strategies results into a realistic and effective resource allocation.

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Journal

International journal of project management

Volume

36

Issue

3

Pagination

414 - 428

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

0263-7863

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2017, Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA

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