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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 1 1 4 40 4 5 22 119
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 1 2 41 5 10 18 100
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 2 43 5 7 19 64
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 2 55 4 6 19 101
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 2 7 74 3 16 64 184
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 2 76 2 3 8 263
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 1 2 4 310 5 9 19 755
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 1 4 50 1 5 17 111
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 2 14 1 3 11 75
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 1 2 5 97 5 12 31 232
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 1 30 5 6 15 70
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 1 3 13 1,462 8 27 59 2,958
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 2 3 6 24 6 9 27 77
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 3 6 10 333 6 14 44 510
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 3 11 53
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 3 5 12 102
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 0 4 22 3 9 21 82
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 3 26 0 3 15 44
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 7 27 90
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 0 1 8 78
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 3 5 28 583 9 16 71 1,003
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 2 4 47 6 16 30 106
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 23 0 1 15 82
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 1 151 1 3 17 246
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 3 215 2 3 28 527
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 1 6 50 8 11 26 119
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 1 1 2 12 8 15 27 60
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 1 3 38 8 29 54 127
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 1 1 16 3 10 25 77
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 0 17 2 7 18 51
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 0 74 1 2 21 143
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 2 44 0 5 20 143
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 4 12 204 7 27 78 354
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 4 31 6 9 17 54
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 1 5 28 5 10 30 57
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 0 2 46 5 25 75 258
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 4 10 32 195
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 1 7 96 1 5 20 101
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 3 4 7 62
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 4 8 255 6 14 34 442
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 1 1 3 127 8 29 57 304
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 1 4 14 239 21 57 142 534
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 2 31 2 5 13 86
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 4 134 2 5 19 308
Total Working Papers 16 47 187 5,424 188 478 1,343 11,507


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 1 2 87 2 5 16 258
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 1 19 4 8 32 141
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 7 6 7 15 58
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 3 9 51 16 28 45 184
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 1 1 9 15
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 1 2 14 3 5 20 90
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 8 10 12 30
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 2 3 49 4 20 81 327
Five things you should know about cost overrun 1 2 2 13 7 21 48 106
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 3 7 17 92
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 8 17 56 130 40 93 219 446
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 1 1 3 8 3 9 30 51
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 1 1 4 11 8 11 34 69
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 4 51 6 8 18 182
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 8 9 23 140
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 1 3 10 140
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 1 7 2 2 9 48
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 1 1 18 6 13 24 155
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 4 4 8 96
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 2 4 59 5 11 36 231
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 2 11 14 26 55 124
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 38
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 1 5 59 6 12 39 270
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 1 3 10 65 6 18 69 258
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 2 3 7 34 6 13 30 116
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 4 8 21 121
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 1 5 18 5 12 42 94
Total Journal Articles 16 39 124 869 179 365 969 3,898


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 4 6 18 32
Total Books 0 0 0 0 4 6 18 32


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 3 7 86 0 4 19 287
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 2 4 7 55
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 2 4 26 3 8 18 79
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 7 11 36 60
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 2 5 64 8 15 40 327
Total Chapters 0 7 16 186 20 42 120 808


Statistics updated 2026-05-06