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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 0 0 1 36 0 1 5 97
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 1 39 0 0 2 82
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 1 41 0 2 3 45
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 2 2 3 53 2 5 7 82
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 0 2 67 1 2 7 120
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 2 74 1 1 7 255
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 0 2 306 0 1 7 736
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 0 3 46 0 2 8 94
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 1 12 0 0 3 64
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 1 92 1 1 10 201
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 0 29 0 1 2 55
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 0 3 8 1,449 0 4 15 2,899
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 1 1 7 18 1 1 12 50
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 5 10 18 323 5 11 25 466
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 42
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 0 2 3 90
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 0 2 18 0 0 2 61
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 5 23 0 1 10 29
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 0 27 1 1 1 63
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 0 0 2 70
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 2 4 32 555 3 12 63 932
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 0 1 43 0 0 6 76
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 0 21 0 1 2 67
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 0 150 0 1 2 229
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 1 212 0 0 8 499
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 1 2 3 44 1 3 6 93
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 33
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 1 2 35 0 3 5 73
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 52
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 1 1 3 17 2 2 6 33
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 2 74 1 1 7 122
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 1 2 42 1 1 5 123
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 1 2 192 2 4 13 276
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 4 27 0 0 7 37
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 1 6 23 0 5 14 27
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 0 4 44 0 1 19 183
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 1 66 0 0 12 163
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 0 7 89 1 1 17 81
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 55
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 3 247 0 0 22 408
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 0 1 124 3 3 7 247
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 0 0 7 225 1 4 19 392
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 0 29 0 1 4 73
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 7 130 1 1 12 289
Total Working Papers 14 27 145 5,237 28 80 392 10,164


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 14
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 0 1 85 0 0 3 242
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 2 18 0 0 3 109
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 6 0 2 5 43
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 2 6 42 2 4 13 139
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 6
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 0 12 0 0 2 70
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 1 1 18
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 8 46 2 2 24 246
Five things you should know about cost overrun 1 1 5 11 1 2 6 58
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 19 0 0 1 75
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 2 3 17 74 6 10 45 227
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 2 5 3 3 12 21
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 0 2 7 0 0 3 35
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 1 47 0 2 7 164
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 0 32 1 2 2 117
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 130
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 1 6 0 1 2 39
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 1 3 17 0 2 8 131
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 1 1 88
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 0 55 1 4 6 195
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 2 9 0 4 17 69
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 35
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 3 54 0 1 7 231
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 0 1 9 55 3 8 33 189
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 6 27 0 1 22 86
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 0 0 3 100
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 0 13 1 2 3 52
Total Journal Articles 4 8 73 745 20 52 233 2,929


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 1 1 3 79 3 5 11 268
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 48
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 0 22 0 2 3 61
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 24
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 1 2 59 2 5 13 287
Total Chapters 1 2 5 170 6 14 35 688


Statistics updated 2025-05-12