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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 0 2 2 38 0 4 10 106
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 2 40 1 1 3 84
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 2 42 1 3 7 49
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 1 4 54 4 7 15 90
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 1 1 68 3 10 15 132
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 1 2 76 0 1 4 258
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 0 2 307 0 1 5 739
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 0 3 49 2 2 9 100
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 3 14 0 0 5 66
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 4 95 1 4 21 214
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 1 30 0 1 4 57
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 2 4 10 1,455 7 10 20 2,913
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 0 7 21 1 3 16 62
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 0 1 16 327 4 16 35 487
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 2 2 3 45
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 1 1 4 92
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 0 4 21 0 0 6 66
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 6 26 0 0 12 35
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 1 2 29 2 5 8 70
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 0 1 3 71
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 5 8 26 567 8 14 52 957
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 1 2 44 1 3 8 80
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 23 4 4 8 73
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 0 150 4 5 6 234
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 1 213 3 6 8 506
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 1 5 47 0 2 9 99
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 0 10 2 2 2 35
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 0 3 36 2 7 13 82
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 0 15 0 1 2 53
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 3 17 3 3 8 37
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 1 74 1 7 11 131
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 1 4 44 3 3 6 127
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 0 1 5 195 3 8 19 287
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 1 5 30 0 2 9 43
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 1 5 26 1 3 13 34
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 0 2 45 2 5 12 191
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 1 66 1 3 10 168
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 0 6 92 0 0 13 86
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 2 2 3 249 4 5 11 414
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 0 1 124 3 6 14 257
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 0 1 8 229 2 13 33 415
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 1 30 0 0 4 75
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 1 5 134 2 4 11 298
Total Working Papers 10 29 160 5,307 78 178 487 10,418
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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 1 1 15
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 1 2 86 1 2 3 244
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 1 1 2 19 4 7 11 118
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 6 0 1 7 47
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 2 3 6 46 4 5 13 148
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 8
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 0 12 0 2 6 75
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 0 1 18
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 3 47 3 7 21 260
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 0 1 11 3 4 7 63
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 1 1 20 0 2 3 78
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 7 15 30 100 21 44 84 297
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 4 7 0 2 20 33
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 0 2 9 3 5 7 42
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 1 1 2 49 1 1 5 166
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 4 9 124
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 2 2 132
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 2 7 2 2 6 43
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 17 0 0 9 134
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 1 1 2 89
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 1 2 57 0 5 17 207
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 3 10 1 7 18 80
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 36
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 1 2 55 4 5 9 238
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 1 2 7 58 8 16 43 211
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 1 2 7 31 3 6 16 95
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 2 3 7 106
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 0 13 0 6 14 64
Total Journal Articles 13 28 80 798 67 143 344 3,171


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 4 7 8 21
Total Books 0 0 0 0 4 7 8 21


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 1 5 82 2 4 15 277
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 48
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 1 2 24 1 3 9 67
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 33
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 2 3 61 0 5 15 296
Total Chapters 0 4 10 177 4 17 53 721


Statistics updated 2025-11-08