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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 42 1 3 18 124
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 21 104
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 1 43 0 6 25 73
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 55 0 2 19 105
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 1 7 75 0 4 61 190
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 0 76 0 2 8 266
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 1 5 312 1 4 22 761
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 1 2 3 52 1 3 16 114
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 0 14 0 1 12 78
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 3 98 1 3 27 240
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 1 1 1 31 2 2 16 73
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 2 6 16 1,469 3 12 70 2,976
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 0 4 25 1 4 22 83
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 1 3 11 338 2 7 42 525
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 1 1 1 29 1 1 11 54
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 1 1 89 1 7 21 112
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 1 2 3 24 1 3 20 86
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 2 2 2 28 3 6 16 51
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 1 2 24 92
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 1 2 10 81
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 2 6 28 590 2 10 69 1,018
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 1 1 5 49 1 5 36 115
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 0 23 0 1 15 84
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 1 1 2 152 1 2 20 250
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 2 215 0 1 26 529
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 0 3 50 0 2 24 123
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 2 12 0 1 29 62
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 1 1 5 41 2 7 62 142
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 1 1 2 17 1 4 28 81
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 0 17 0 1 18 52
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 1 1 75 1 6 19 149
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 1 44 0 1 23 147
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 1 11 206 3 8 84 368
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 1 31 1 3 18 61
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 0 2 28 1 3 32 65
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 1 3 48 2 6 86 275
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 1 1 1 67 1 2 31 198
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 2 2 6 98 3 5 27 113
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 1 10 257 2 11 44 454
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 0 16 0 0 7 63
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 1 4 128 0 2 53 307
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 3 10 24 253 4 21 155 568
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 1 31 0 1 12 87
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 1 2 2 136 3 6 20 316
Total Working Papers 24 51 180 5,493 48 185 1,419 11,815


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 1 87 1 1 17 260
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 2 20 2 5 35 149
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 7 0 0 13 60
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 0 2 12 56 8 25 96 240
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 15
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 2 14 1 4 21 96
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 2 14 32
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 1 1 3 50 2 5 82 339
Five things you should know about cost overrun 1 1 4 15 3 7 57 117
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 0 20 0 0 20 98
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 5 12 55 148 14 37 255 531
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 2 9 2 5 28 61
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 1 3 12 2 7 43 82
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 3 51 0 1 20 185
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 0 4 25 146
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 0 8 140
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 0 7 0 0 8 49
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 19 0 3 29 163
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 2 10 98
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 1 2 4 61 2 4 28 235
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 2 12 2 7 60 139
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 39
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 1 6 61 5 6 49 283
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 1 2 10 67 2 4 69 272
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 1 1 5 35 4 8 34 126
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 3 6 24 128
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 1 1 6 19 9 14 53 117
Total Journal Articles 12 25 124 909 62 158 1,114 4,218


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 0 2 18 35
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 2 18 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 1 4 20 295
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 2 26 1 1 14 80
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 1 3 33 65
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 2 6 67 3 5 40 336
Total Chapters 0 2 13 190 6 13 114 831


Statistics updated 2026-10-11