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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 0 1 4 42 2 5 20 126
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 1 41 2 4 22 106
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 1 43 1 5 25 74
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 55 1 3 16 106
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 0 7 75 1 3 59 191
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 1 1 1 77 3 5 11 269
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 1 5 312 7 11 29 768
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 1 2 4 53 5 7 19 119
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 0 14 2 3 14 80
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 3 98 4 7 30 244
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 1 1 31 2 4 18 75
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 1 7 15 1,470 3 12 66 2,979
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 0 4 25 4 7 25 87
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 0 2 11 338 3 7 41 528
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 1 1 29 3 4 12 57
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 1 89 5 10 25 117
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 1 3 24 0 2 20 86
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 1 3 3 29 4 10 20 55
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 29 3 5 25 95
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 1 3 11 82
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 1 7 24 591 3 11 64 1,021
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 1 5 49 4 9 39 119
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 0 23 2 3 13 86
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 1 2 152 4 6 20 254
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 2 215 0 1 23 529
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 1 1 4 51 3 5 27 126
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 2 12 1 2 28 63
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 1 5 41 0 6 60 142
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 1 2 17 1 5 29 82
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 0 17 5 6 20 57
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 1 2 2 76 3 8 21 152
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 0 44 4 5 24 151
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 0 1 11 206 2 9 83 370
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 1 31 1 4 19 62
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 0 2 28 2 5 33 67
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 0 3 48 7 11 91 282
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 1 1 67 3 5 33 201
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 2 4 8 100 5 10 32 118
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 0 16 5 5 12 68
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 1 1 9 258 4 12 44 458
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 0 4 128 4 4 54 311
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 3 10 27 256 10 24 163 578
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 1 31 1 1 13 88
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 3 5 5 139 10 15 28 326
Total Working Papers 16 56 186 5,509 140 289 1,481 11,955


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 2 5 20
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 0 1 87 4 5 20 264
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 1 20 2 7 33 151
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 1 1 2 8 2 2 15 62
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 6 8 16 62 21 42 113 261
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 16
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 2 14 1 4 22 97
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 14 32
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 1 2 4 51 5 8 84 344
Five things you should know about cost overrun 1 2 5 16 6 11 60 123
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 0 20 3 3 23 101
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 5 13 53 153 25 45 259 556
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 2 9 2 6 30 63
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 1 2 4 13 8 13 48 90
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 2 51 7 8 26 192
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 1 34 2 5 24 148
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 2 2 10 142
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 0 7 1 1 7 50
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 19 3 5 32 166
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 3 3 12 101
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 2 4 61 5 9 33 240
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 2 12 3 7 62 142
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 39
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 1 6 61 4 10 49 287
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 2 3 11 69 7 10 68 279
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 1 4 35 1 6 32 127
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 5 11 27 133
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 1 6 19 5 17 58 122
Total Journal Articles 17 37 128 926 130 244 1,177 4,348


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 35
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 35


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 0 5 87 2 5 20 297
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 1 1 8 56
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 2 26 2 3 15 82
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 2 4 34 67
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 0 6 67 6 9 46 342
Total Chapters 0 0 13 190 13 22 123 844


Statistics updated 2026-11-12