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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 1 2 5 41 1 6 19 121
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 1 41 1 7 19 102
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 1 43 2 8 21 67
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 2 55 2 6 20 103
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 0 0 7 74 1 5 66 186
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 0 1 76 0 3 7 264
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 2 4 311 1 7 20 757
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 0 2 50 0 1 15 111
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 0 1 14 1 3 12 77
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 1 2 4 98 2 10 31 237
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 0 0 30 1 6 15 71
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 0 2 13 1,463 2 14 63 2,964
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 3 4 25 0 8 22 79
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 0 5 11 335 3 14 50 518
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 0 11 53
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 2 6 15 105
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 0 1 22 1 4 18 83
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 0 3 26 1 1 16 45
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 29 0 4 26 90
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 0 1 9 79
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 0 4 27 584 1 14 70 1,008
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 1 5 48 2 10 34 110
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 0 1 23 0 1 15 83
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 1 151 2 3 19 248
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 2 215 0 3 28 528
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 0 5 50 2 10 26 121
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 1 2 12 0 9 28 61
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 2 2 5 40 3 16 62 135
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 1 16 0 3 25 77
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 0 17 0 2 18 51
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 0 74 0 1 21 143
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 1 44 0 3 22 146
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 0 2 12 205 2 13 83 360
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 0 3 31 1 10 18 58
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 0 3 28 3 10 32 62
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 1 1 2 47 3 16 84 269
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 0 66 0 5 32 196
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 0 4 96 2 8 24 108
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 1 9 256 0 7 34 443
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 16 1 4 8 63
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 1 3 127 1 9 56 305
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 2 5 16 243 7 34 147 547
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 0 1 31 0 2 11 86
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 0 1 134 1 4 16 310
Total Working Papers 7 34 166 5,442 52 311 1,388 11,630


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 2 87 0 3 17 259
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 1 1 2 20 2 7 33 144
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 7 0 8 14 60
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 4 11 54 15 47 72 215
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 15
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 2 14 1 5 20 92
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 8 12 30
Does infrastructure investment lead to economic growth or economic fragility? Evidence from China 0 0 2 49 4 11 84 334
Five things you should know about cost overrun 1 2 3 14 3 11 51 110
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 0 0 1 20 2 9 23 98
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 2 14 56 136 18 88 251 494
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 1 2 3 9 2 8 27 56
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 1 3 11 2 14 39 75
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 0 4 51 1 8 20 184
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 33 0 10 22 142
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 0 1 10 140
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 0 7 0 3 9 49
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 1 1 2 19 2 11 28 160
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 4 8 96
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 3 59 0 5 32 231
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 1 1 2 12 3 22 59 132
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 38
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 2 6 60 3 13 45 277
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 0 1 10 65 4 16 75 268
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 2 5 34 0 8 30 118
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 0 5 22 122
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 5 18 2 14 48 103
Total Journal Articles 9 31 123 884 64 341 1,067 4,060


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 1 5 19 33
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 5 19 33


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 0 1 6 87 2 4 18 291
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 2 7 55
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 3 26 0 3 15 79
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 2 9 35 62
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 0 1 6 65 0 12 40 331
Total Chapters 0 2 15 188 4 30 115 818


Statistics updated 2026-07-10