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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 1 2 3 39 2 5 12 108
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 2 40 1 2 4 85
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 1 1 3 43 2 5 9 51
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 4 54 2 8 16 92
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 2 2 3 70 14 21 29 146
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 1 2 76 1 2 5 259
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 1 1 2 308 1 1 5 740
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 0 3 49 3 5 12 103
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 3 14 2 2 6 68
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 4 95 2 4 21 216
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 1 30 1 2 5 58
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 1 4 10 1,456 1 10 20 2,914
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 0 6 21 0 2 15 62
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 0 0 16 327 1 15 36 488
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 2 3 45
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 1 2 5 93
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 1 1 5 22 1 1 7 67
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 5 26 3 3 13 38
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 0 0 2 29 3 5 11 73
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 2 2 5 73
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 3 10 25 570 8 19 55 965
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 1 2 3 45 3 6 11 83
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 23 3 7 11 76
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 1 1 1 151 1 6 7 235
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 1 1 2 214 6 9 14 512
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 2 3 7 49 4 5 13 103
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 0 10 6 8 8 41
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 0 2 36 2 8 14 84
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 0 15 3 4 4 56
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 3 17 4 7 12 41
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 1 74 3 7 14 134
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 1 4 44 2 5 8 129
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 1 6 196 11 17 29 298
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 1 4 30 0 2 7 43
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 1 5 26 3 5 16 37
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 1 1 3 46 4 9 14 195
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 2 3 9 170
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 2 2 7 94 2 2 11 88
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 0 0 1 56
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 2 4 5 251 2 6 11 416
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 1 1 2 125 6 12 20 263
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 0 0 7 229 11 17 42 426
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 1 30 2 2 5 77
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 1 4 134 0 3 10 298
Total Working Papers 22 42 169 5,345 131 268 585 10,605


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 15
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 1 2 86 1 3 4 245
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 1 2 19 5 12 16 123
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 6 0 1 7 47
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 3 7 47 3 7 16 151
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 9
Different cost performance: different determinants? 1 1 1 13 5 7 11 80
Do Road Planners Produce More ‘Honest Numbers’ than Rail Planners? An Analysis of Accuracy in Road‐traffic Forecasts in Cities versus Peripheral Regions 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 18
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 3 47 7 14 26 267
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 0 1 11 11 15 18 74
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 4 4 7 82
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 1 13 31 101 4 38 88 301
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 3 7 0 1 17 33
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 0 2 9 2 5 9 44
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 1 2 49 0 1 5 166
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 0 0 1 33 4 7 13 128
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 1 2 132
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 2 7 0 2 6 43
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 17 2 2 10 136
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 1 2 89
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 1 2 57 3 6 19 210
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 2 10 4 8 20 84
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 36
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 1 3 56 10 14 19 248
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 1 2 7 59 7 15 44 218
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 1 5 31 3 8 16 98
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 0 2 7 106
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 0 13 3 5 17 67
Total Journal Articles 5 25 80 803 79 184 405 3,250


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 2 7 10 23
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 7 10 23


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 1 1 6 83 3 6 18 280
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 48
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 1 2 24 2 4 11 69
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 4 7 17 37
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 0 3 61 1 2 15 297
Total Chapters 1 2 11 178 10 19 62 731


Statistics updated 2025-12-06