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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 1 1 2 37 1 3 9 103
Characteristics of Cost Overruns for Dutch Transport Infrastructure Projects and the Importance of the Decision to Build and Project Phases 0 0 2 40 0 0 3 83
Comparison of Capital Costs per Route-Kilometre in Urban Rail 0 0 2 42 0 0 4 46
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 1 1 4 54 1 2 9 84
Cost overruns in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Explanations and Their Theoretical Embeddedness 1 1 3 68 3 5 12 125
Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster 0 1 1 75 0 2 4 257
Delusions of Success: Comment on Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman 0 1 2 307 1 3 6 739
Different Cost Performance: Different Determinants? The Case of Cost Overruns in Dutch Transportation Infrastructure Projects 0 1 3 49 0 2 8 98
Do Classics Exist in Megaproject Management? 0 2 3 14 0 2 5 66
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China 0 1 4 95 2 8 19 212
Double Whammy - How ICT Projects are Fooled by Randomness and Screwed by Political Intent 0 1 1 30 0 1 3 56
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research 1 3 7 1,452 1 5 14 2,904
Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled 0 1 9 21 1 6 17 60
From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right 1 4 17 327 2 6 23 473
Geographical Variation in Project Cost Performance: The Netherlands versus Worldwide 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 43
How (In)accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation 0 0 0 88 0 1 3 91
How Planners Deal with Uncomfortable Knowledge: The Dubious Ethics of the American Planning Association 0 2 4 21 0 4 6 66
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies 0 3 8 26 0 6 14 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 1 2 2 29 3 5 6 68
Measuring Inaccuracy in Travel Demand Forecasting: Methodological Considerations Regarding Ramp Up and Sampling 0 0 0 39 1 1 3 71
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition 1 3 27 560 3 10 55 946
Overspend? Late? Failure? What the Data Say About IT Project Risk in the Public Sector 0 0 1 43 0 1 5 77
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which Is the Better Explanation? 0 2 2 23 0 2 4 69
Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 0 150 0 0 2 229
Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures 0 0 1 213 3 3 7 503
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View 0 2 4 46 1 4 9 98
Quantitative Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis of Nuclear Waste Storage 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 33
Reference Class Forecasting for Hong Kong's Major Roadworks Projects 0 1 3 36 1 3 8 76
Regression to the Tail: Why the Olympics Blow Up 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 52
Report for the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project 0 0 3 17 0 1 6 34
Report for the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 0 0 1 74 3 5 8 127
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 0 0 3 43 0 0 4 124
Survival of the Unfittest: Why the Worst Infrastructure Gets Built, And What We Can Do about It 1 2 5 195 2 4 16 281
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 0 2 4 29 0 2 7 41
The Empirical Reality of IT Project Cost Overruns: Discovering A Power-Law Distribution 0 1 5 25 1 3 15 32
The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games 0 0 2 45 0 1 8 186
The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large 0 0 1 66 2 3 12 167
Top Ten Behavioral Biases in Project Management: An Overview 0 1 9 92 0 3 18 86
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 1 1 1 16 1 1 1 56
Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie? 0 0 1 247 1 1 14 410
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?" 0 0 1 124 0 3 8 251
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview 1 3 9 229 7 13 30 409
Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects 0 1 1 30 0 2 4 75
Why Your IT Project Might Be Riskier Than You Think 0 3 8 133 1 4 14 295
Total Working Papers 10 47 166 5,303 42 132 426 10,337


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Perestroikan Straw Man Answers Back: David Laitin and Phronetic Political Science 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 14
Big decisions, big risks. Improving accountability in mega projects 0 0 1 85 0 0 2 242
Characteristics of cost overruns for Dutch transport infrastructure projects and the importance of the decision to build and project phases 0 0 2 18 0 2 5 111
Cost Overruns and Demand Shortfalls in Urban Rail and Other Infrastructure 0 0 1 6 0 2 7 46
Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice 1 1 5 44 1 1 10 144
Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
Different cost performance: different determinants? 0 0 0 12 0 2 4 73
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 1 5 47 0 4 17 253
Five things you should know about cost overrun 0 0 1 11 0 0 3 59
Geographical variation in project cost performance: the Netherlands versus worldwide 1 1 1 20 2 3 3 78
How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? 3 11 23 88 10 30 60 263
How to solve big problems: bespoke versus platform strategies 0 2 4 7 1 7 22 32
Inaccuracy in Traffic Forecasts 0 2 2 9 2 4 4 39
Inaccuracy of traffic forecasts and cost estimates on large transport projects 0 1 1 48 0 1 5 165
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 33 1 3 6 121
Measuring inaccuracy in travel demand forecasting: methodological considerations regarding ramp up and sampling 0 0 0 30 1 1 1 131
On de-bunking “Fake News” in the post-truth era: How to reduce statistical error in research 0 0 2 7 0 1 4 41
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation? 0 0 2 17 0 3 10 134
Planning and Design of Large Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 37 0 0 1 88
Policy and Planning for Large-Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures 0 0 1 56 2 6 14 204
Regression to the tail: Why the Olympics blow up 0 0 3 10 3 5 14 76
Response to Todd Landman 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 35
Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development 1 1 3 55 1 3 7 234
Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it 1 2 10 57 8 10 43 203
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It 1 1 7 30 1 2 17 90
The Fallacy of Beneficial Ignorance: A Test of Hirschman’s Hiding Hand 0 0 0 28 1 4 6 104
What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects? 0 0 0 13 4 8 13 62
Total Journal Articles 8 24 77 778 38 102 281 3,066


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Megaprojects and Risk 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 16
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 16


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Delusion, Deception and Corruption in Major Infrastructure Projects: Causes, Consequences and Cures 1 1 5 82 1 4 14 274
Introduction: Scope of the Book 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 48
Mega-projects’ cost performance and lock-in: problems and solutions 0 0 1 23 1 2 7 65
Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development 0 0 0 0 2 4 10 30
Public Planning of Mega-Projects: Overestimation of Demand and Underestimation of Costs 2 2 3 61 4 5 15 295
Total Chapters 3 3 9 176 8 15 47 712


Statistics updated 2025-09-05