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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 0 1 3 39 4 8 18 114
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 1 40 3 6 8 90
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 1 2 43 4 8 14 57
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 1 1 4 55 2 5 18 95
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 4 5 72 12 36 50 168
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 2 76 1 2 6 260
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 1 2 308 4 7 11 746
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 0 3 49 1 6 14 106
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 2 14 3 6 8 72
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 3 95 2 6 20 220
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 1 30 4 7 10 64
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 0 4 13 1,459 7 18 36 2,931
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 0 4 21 4 6 19 68
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 0 0 14 327 4 9 41 496
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 3 5 8 50
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 3 5 9 97
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 1 4 22 3 7 12 73
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 3 26 2 6 13 41
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 6 13 21 83
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 2 6 7 77
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 2 11 27 578 8 30 67 987
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 1 2 45 5 10 14 90
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 23 3 8 15 81
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 1 1 151 4 9 15 243
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 2 3 215 7 18 25 524
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 2 7 49 5 9 18 108
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 1 1 11 1 10 12 45
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 1 3 37 6 16 28 98
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 0 15 7 14 15 67
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 1 17 2 7 13 44
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 0 74 4 10 20 141
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 3 44 3 11 16 138
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 3 5 9 200 15 40 55 327
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 1 1 4 31 2 2 8 45
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 1 1 5 27 1 13 25 47
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 1 2 46 32 42 51 233
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 11 17 22 185
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 1 3 6 95 4 10 16 96
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 2 4 251 5 14 20 428
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 1 2 3 58
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 2 2 126 7 18 31 275
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 4 6 10 235 27 62 89 477
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 1 2 31 2 6 9 81
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 4 134 2 5 15 303
Total Working Papers 13 54 167 5,377 238 555 945 11,029


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 1 3 4 18
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 0 1 86 5 9 11 253
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 1 19 3 15 24 133
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 1 1 1 7 3 4 10 51
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 0 2 8 48 2 8 21 156
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 5 6 8 14
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 1 1 13 3 10 15 85
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 2 3 20
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 1 47 9 47 63 307
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 0 1 11 6 22 29 85
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 3 7 10 85
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 9 13 42 113 34 56 136 353
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 2 7 5 9 24 42
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 1 1 3 10 12 16 23 58
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 2 2 4 51 6 8 12 174
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 0 7 16 131
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 2 5 7 137
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 1 7 3 3 8 46
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 1 17 4 8 13 142
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 3 3 5 92
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 2 57 7 13 29 220
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 1 1 2 11 7 18 33 98
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 37
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 3 4 58 3 20 28 258
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 1 4 8 62 11 29 59 240
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 4 31 1 8 18 103
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 4 7 13 113
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 3 4 4 17 13 18 32 82
Total Journal Articles 18 32 93 830 156 362 656 3,533


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 26
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 26


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 1 5 83 3 6 20 283
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 1 3 3 51
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 2 24 1 4 12 71
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 8 16 27 49
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 1 1 4 62 8 16 30 312
Total Chapters 1 2 11 179 21 45 92 766


Statistics updated 2026-02-12