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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 2 5 10 102
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 1 2 40 0 1 3 83
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 1 2 42 0 1 4 46
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 2 3 53 1 3 8 83
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 0 2 67 0 1 7 120
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 1 1 3 75 2 3 8 257
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 1 1 2 307 1 1 4 737
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 2 3 48 0 2 8 96
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 1 1 2 13 1 1 4 65
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 2 3 94 2 6 14 206
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 1 1 1 30 1 1 3 56
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 1 1 8 1,450 2 2 14 2,901
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 1 4 10 21 3 8 19 57
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 1 6 16 324 1 7 20 468
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 0 2 90
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 2 3 5 21 3 4 6 65
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 5 23 0 0 9 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 1 1 1 28 1 2 2 64
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 0 4 29 557 2 9 59 938
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 0 1 43 0 0 5 76
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 1 1 1 22 1 1 3 68
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 0 150 0 0 2 229
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 1 1 213 0 1 5 500
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 1 2 3 45 1 3 6 95
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 0 2 35 0 0 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 0 1 3 17 0 2 5 33
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 2 74 0 1 5 122
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 2 3 43 0 2 6 124
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 0 2 3 193 0 3 13 277
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 1 1 5 28 1 3 9 40
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 1 2 6 25 1 3 14 30
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 1 3 45 0 2 13 185
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 1 66 0 1 12 164
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 1 3 10 92 1 4 19 84
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 2 247 0 1 16 409
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 0 1 124 1 5 6 249
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 1 2 7 227 4 9 23 400
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 1 1 1 30 2 2 4 75
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 3 3 10 133 3 6 17 294
Total Working Papers 20 53 163 5,276 37 106 399 10,242


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 2 2 5 111
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 6 2 3 7 46
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 0 2 6 43 0 6 14 143
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 6
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 0 12 1 2 3 72
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 1 1 6 47 1 6 18 250
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 1 4 11 0 2 6 59
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? 3 8 19 80 10 22 48 243
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 1 1 3 6 4 11 19 29
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 1 1 3 8 1 1 3 36
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 1 47 0 0 5 164
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 1 1 1 33 2 4 5 120
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 1 2 7 0 1 3 40
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 17 1 1 8 132
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 0 1 88
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 1 1 56 1 5 10 199
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 1 3 10 2 4 15 73
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 1 1 6 232
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 0 0 8 55 0 7 34 193
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 2 8 29 0 2 18 88
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 0 0 2 100
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 0 13 1 4 6 55
Total Journal Articles 7 20 78 761 29 84 245 2,993


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


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 3 5 81 3 8 15 273
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 1 23 1 3 6 64
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 27
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 0 2 59 1 6 15 291
Total Chapters 0 4 8 173 6 21 45 703


Statistics updated 2025-07-04