Project vulnerability: State of the art and propositions for future framework development |
This paper reviews research studies of vulnerability in different scientific disciplines. Here, we also challenge present research to incorporate this concept into the domain of project risk management. The formulation of vulnerability has usually common though contested meaning. It is explained as a degree to which a system is susceptible to harmand incapable to cope with its adverse effects. But the concept seems not fully operational. The challenges confronted to make it operational are to develop a robust method for its assessment; afterwards to promote adequate strategies for vulnerability reduction. Depending on a purpose of assessment as well as on specific environments, methods for vulnerability assessment do not show commonness among themselves, even not among the same scientific disciplines. The main objectives of this paper are to establish common ground for vulnerability and identify potential framework developments for project risk management.
Sanja Jovičić, Franck Marle, Jean-Claude Bocquet, Marija Janković, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal |