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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 0 0 3 39 0 6 18 114
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 1 1 2 41 3 8 11 93
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 2 43 0 6 14 57
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 1 4 55 0 3 18 95
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 1 3 6 73 5 27 55 173
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 2 76 1 2 7 261
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 0 2 308 1 7 11 747
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 1 1 4 50 4 7 17 110
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 2 14 1 5 9 73
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 3 95 3 7 23 223
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 1 30 1 7 10 65
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 2 5 14 1,461 5 22 39 2,936
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 1 1 5 22 1 7 20 69
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 3 3 14 330 5 13 43 501
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 1 6 9 51
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 2 6 9 99
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 0 4 22 1 7 13 74
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 3 26 2 5 14 43
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 3 13 24 86
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 1 5 8 78
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 0 8 25 578 0 22 59 987
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 0 2 45 2 9 16 92
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 23 0 5 14 81
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 1 151 2 10 16 245
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 1 3 215 0 12 25 524
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 0 7 49 1 6 19 109
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 1 1 11 6 10 18 51
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 1 2 3 38 7 21 33 105
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 0 15 6 17 21 73
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 1 17 3 6 16 47
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 0 74 1 8 21 142
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 3 44 3 12 19 141
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 2 6 11 202 8 37 62 335
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 1 4 31 1 3 9 46
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 1 5 27 1 11 25 48
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 0 2 46 8 46 59 241
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 3 18 25 188
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 1 6 95 0 8 16 96
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 1 1 5 252 3 15 23 431
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 1 3 4 59
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 1 2 126 8 20 39 283
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 3 9 13 238 24 75 110 501
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 1 2 31 3 7 11 84
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 4 134 0 5 15 303
Total Working Papers 16 48 176 5,393 131 555 1,047 11,160


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 3 4 18
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 1 1 2 87 3 11 14 256
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 1 19 3 13 27 136
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 1 1 7 1 5 9 52
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 2 8 49 7 12 27 163
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 5 8 14
Different cost performance: different determinants? 1 1 2 14 1 6 16 86
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 3 20
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 1 1 2 48 7 47 70 314
Five things you should know about cost overrun 1 1 2 12 4 15 33 89
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 1 4 11 86
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 4 16 46 117 24 76 158 377
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 0 2 7 2 11 26 44
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 1 3 10 1 15 24 59
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 2 4 51 2 10 13 176
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 1 4 17 132
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 5 7 137
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 1 7 0 3 8 46
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 1 1 2 18 4 10 16 146
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 3 5 92
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 1 1 3 58 4 14 32 224
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 1 2 11 5 19 38 103
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 37
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 2 4 58 2 12 29 260
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 2 5 10 64 7 29 66 247
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 4 31 5 10 23 108
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 3 10 16 116
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 4 4 17 2 17 34 84
Total Journal Articles 13 40 105 843 89 372 736 3,622


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 0 3 12 26
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 3 12 26


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 2 2 7 85 3 6 22 286
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 2 5 5 53
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 1 1 3 25 3 5 14 74
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 3 15 30 52
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 1 3 62 3 18 32 315
Total Chapters 3 4 13 182 14 49 103 780


Statistics updated 2026-03-04