Assessing the vulnerability of SMEs: a qualitative analysis

Sophie Clusel (1, 2) , Franck Guarnieri (1) , Christophe Martin (1, 3) , Didier Lagarde (2)

1 CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises
2 AFNOR - Association Française de Normalisation
3 ESAIP Grasse

The Very Small Business (VSB) and the Small or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME), like any other socioeconomic entity, faces multiple risks (fire, loss of a major supplier, work-related accidents, failure of a partnership, industrial espionage, etc.). However, unlike their larger counterparts, they do not have at their disposal dedicated tools for global risk management and thus lack ways to ensure their sustainability. In this context, the AFNOR Group, in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Risks and Crises of MINES ParisTech, carried out a research project to address this issue.

Mots clés: Very Small Business (VSB); Small and Medium Enterprise (SME); vulnerability

Domaines: Gestion des risques et des crises

Sophie Clusel, Franck Guarnieri, Christophe Martin, Didier Lagarde. Assessing the vulnerability of SMEs: a qualitative analysis. 22nd European Safety and Reliability Conference - ESREL 2013, Sep 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 8 p. - ISBN 9781138001237. ⟨hal-00871061⟩