Construction risk management research: intellectual structure and emerging themes

Abstract

This study aims to undertake a holistic review of global construction risk management (CRM) research published between 2000 and 2021 and identify the intellectual structure and emerging themes of the CRM research. A total of 2034 primary documents and 68727 secondary documents were collected from Web of Science core collection database. Document co-citation and bibliographic coupling techniques were adopted with qualitative discussion to show the intellectual structure of the CRM knowledge domain and emerging themes. The CRM knowledge domain consists of the key themes relating to CRM steps, RM in construction projects with specified characteristics, RM in international construction and management of particular risk categories. In addition, the emerging themes include advanced risk analysis techniques, information and communication technology-driven CRM, integration of CRM into other management functions, as well as human factors in CRM. This review study is more inclusive than any prior reviews on CRM and provides an in-depth understanding of the CRM research and benefits industry practitioners and researchers.