Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
807731 Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2015 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Six research areas on RE are identified.•A research agenda for RE is proposed.•RE research is mostly descriptive and based on case studies.•Design science is suggested as a research strategy for RE.•Five domains account for 75% of the reviewed studies.

Resilience engineering (RE) has been advocated as a new safety management paradigm, compatible with the nature of complex socio-technical systems. This study aims to identify the research areas and to propose a research agenda for RE, based on a systematic literature review that encompasses 237 studies from 2006 to 2014. Six research areas are identified: theory of RE; identification and classification of resilience; safety management tools; analysis of accidents; risk assessment; and training. The area “theory of RE” accounted for 52% of the studies, and it indicates that research has emphasized the description of how resilient performance occurs. The proposal for a research agenda is focused on: refining key constructs; positioning RE in relation to other theories; exploring other research strategies in addition to case-based studies; investigating barriers for implementing RE; and balancing the importance on describing and understanding resilience with the emphasis on the design of resilient systems, and the evaluation of these designs.

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