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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 0 1 5 41 0 2 19 121
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 1 41 0 2 19 102
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 1 43 2 5 23 69
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 2 55 0 2 20 103
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 1 1 8 75 2 4 66 188
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 1 76 0 1 7 264
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 1 4 311 0 2 19 757
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 1 1 2 51 1 1 14 112
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 0 14 0 2 11 77
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 1 3 98 0 5 27 237
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 0 30 0 1 15 71
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 0 1 12 1,463 3 9 64 2,967
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 1 4 25 1 3 21 80
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 1 3 10 336 3 11 50 521
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 0 10 53
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 1 1 1 89 2 5 16 107
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 1 1 2 23 1 2 18 84
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 0 26 0 1 10 45
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 29 0 0 25 90
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 0 1 9 79
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 0 1 25 584 2 7 67 1,010
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 1 5 48 0 4 33 110
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 0 23 0 1 14 83
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 1 151 0 2 19 248
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 2 215 0 1 28 528
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 0 4 50 0 2 24 121
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 2 12 0 1 28 61
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 2 4 40 1 9 61 136
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 1 16 0 0 25 77
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 0 17 0 0 17 51
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 0 74 1 1 20 144
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 1 44 0 3 22 146
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 0 1 11 205 1 7 82 361
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 2 31 0 4 17 58
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 0 3 28 0 5 31 62
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 1 2 3 48 2 13 85 271
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 0 1 31 196
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 0 4 96 0 7 22 108
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 1 2 10 257 3 4 37 446
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 0 1 8 63
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 1 1 4 128 2 3 56 307
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 3 7 18 246 7 20 152 554
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 1 31 1 1 12 87
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 1 134 1 3 17 311
Total Working Papers 11 29 160 5,453 36 159 1,371 11,666


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 0 4 18
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 0 2 87 0 1 17 259
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 1 2 20 0 3 33 144
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 7 0 2 14 60
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 0 3 11 54 4 35 76 219
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 15
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 2 14 1 3 20 93
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 1 1 13 31
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 2 49 2 9 83 336
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 1 3 14 2 6 53 112
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 0 6 22 98
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 4 10 55 140 17 65 258 511
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 1 2 9 1 6 26 57
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 0 2 11 2 8 40 77
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 3 51 0 2 19 184
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 33 1 3 23 143
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 0 10 140
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 0 7 0 1 8 49
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 1 2 19 1 6 27 161
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 2 2 10 98
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 3 59 0 0 29 231
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 1 2 12 3 11 62 135
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 39
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 1 6 60 0 7 44 277
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 1 1 10 66 1 11 74 269
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 5 34 3 5 32 121
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 0 1 19 122
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 5 18 2 11 47 105
Total Journal Articles 5 20 119 889 44 206 1,076 4,104


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 0 1 19 33
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 1 19 33


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 1 6 87 1 5 19 292
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 0 7 55
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 3 26 0 0 15 79
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 1 3 35 63
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 2 3 8 67 2 6 42 333
Total Chapters 2 4 17 190 4 14 118 822


Statistics updated 2026-08-07