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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 3 4 8 100
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 1 1 2 40 1 1 3 83
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 1 1 2 42 1 3 4 46
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 2 3 53 0 5 7 82
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 0 2 67 0 2 7 120
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 2 74 0 1 6 255
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 0 1 306 0 0 3 736
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 2 2 3 48 2 3 8 96
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 2 2 3 94 3 4 12 204
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 0 29 0 0 2 55
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 0 2 7 1,449 0 2 12 2,899
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 2 3 9 20 4 5 16 54
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 0 7 15 323 1 9 22 467
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 1 1 3 19 1 1 3 62
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 0 0 0 27 0 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 30 557 4 8 60 936
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? 0 0 0 21 0 0 2 67
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 1 1 2 213 1 1 8 500
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 2 2 44 1 4 6 94
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 1 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 6 33
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 2 74 0 1 6 122
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 2 3 43 1 2 6 124
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 2 3 193 1 4 13 277
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 4 27 2 2 8 39
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 1 2 6 24 2 6 15 29
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 1 1 5 45 2 3 18 185
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 1 66 1 1 13 164
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 2 2 9 91 2 3 18 83
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 1 1 17 409
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 0 1 124 1 4 5 248
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 1 1 8 226 4 5 22 396
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 0 29 0 0 3 73
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 7 130 2 3 14 291
Total Working Papers 19 39 150 5,256 41 92 387 10,205


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 1 1 6 44
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 2 7 43 4 7 17 143
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 1 3 71
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 5 46 3 5 19 249
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 1 4 11 1 3 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 6 18 77 6 14 42 233
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 2 5 4 7 15 25
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 0 2 7 0 0 2 35
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 1 47 0 1 6 164
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 3 3 118
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 1 1 2 7 1 2 3 40
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 1 2 17 0 1 7 131
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 1 1 1 56 3 6 9 198
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 1 1 3 10 2 6 15 71
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 0 5 231
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 0 1 8 55 4 12 35 193
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 2 2 8 29 2 3 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 2 4 5 54
Total Journal Articles 9 16 74 754 35 78 231 2,964


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 2 3 5 81 2 6 12 270
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 48
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 1 1 1 23 2 3 5 63
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 26
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 0 2 59 3 7 15 290
Total Chapters 3 4 8 173 9 20 42 697


Statistics updated 2025-06-06