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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 2 4 14 110
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 2 40 2 4 6 87
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 1 3 43 2 5 11 53
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 4 54 1 7 17 93
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 2 4 5 72 10 27 39 156
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 2 76 0 1 5 259
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 1 2 308 2 3 7 742
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 0 3 49 2 7 14 105
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 3 14 1 3 7 69
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 4 95 2 5 20 218
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 1 30 2 3 7 60
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 3 6 13 1,459 10 18 30 2,924
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 0 4 21 2 3 15 64
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 0 0 16 327 4 9 39 492
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 2 4 5 47
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 1 3 6 94
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 1 5 22 3 4 10 70
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 5 26 1 4 13 39
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 4 9 15 77
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 2 4 6 75
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 6 14 28 576 14 30 64 979
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 1 2 45 2 6 10 85
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 23 2 9 12 78
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 1 1 151 4 9 11 239
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 1 2 3 215 5 14 18 517
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 2 7 49 0 4 13 103
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 1 1 1 11 3 11 11 44
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 1 1 3 37 8 12 22 92
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 0 15 4 7 8 60
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 2 17 1 8 12 42
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 0 74 3 7 16 137
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 1 4 44 6 11 14 135
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 2 7 197 14 28 42 312
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 3 30 0 0 6 43
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 0 5 26 9 13 25 46
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 1 3 46 6 12 20 201
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 4 7 13 174
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 2 5 94 4 6 13 92
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 1 1 2 57
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 4 4 251 7 13 16 423
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 1 2 3 126 5 14 25 268
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 2 2 8 231 24 37 64 450
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 1 1 2 31 2 4 7 79
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 4 134 3 5 13 301
Total Working Papers 19 51 175 5,364 186 395 743 10,791


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 2 3 3 17
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 0 2 86 3 5 7 248
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 1 2 19 7 16 22 130
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 0 6 1 1 7 48
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 4 8 48 3 10 19 154
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 9
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 1 1 13 2 7 13 82
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 2 2 3 20
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 2 47 31 41 56 298
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 0 1 11 5 19 23 79
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 0 4 7 82
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 3 11 33 104 18 43 104 319
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 3 7 4 4 20 37
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 0 2 9 2 7 11 46
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 1 2 49 2 3 6 168
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 3 10 16 131
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 3 3 5 135
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 4 10 138
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 0 2 57 3 6 22 213
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 1 10 7 12 26 91
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 2 3 5 58 7 21 26 255
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 2 4 8 61 11 26 53 229
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 1 4 31 4 10 19 102
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 3 5 9 109
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 1 1 1 14 2 5 19 69
Total Journal Articles 9 27 83 812 127 273 518 3,377


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 2 8 12 25
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 8 12 25


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 1 6 83 0 5 18 280
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 2 2 3 50
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 2 24 1 4 12 70
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 4 9 19 41
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 0 3 61 7 8 22 304
Total Chapters 0 1 11 178 14 28 74 745


Statistics updated 2026-01-09