IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/brcebe/v2y2017i1p137-143n19.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Holonic Handling the Unexpected in Project Management

Author

Listed:
  • Bakos Levente

    (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania)

  • Dumitrașcu Dănuț

    (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania)

Abstract

Risk assessment is one the key activities of any project. The unexpected situations can have catastrophic consequences. Risk assessment tries to estimate to potential known unknowns, but there is no guarantee to foresee all circumstances around a project. In this situation the project team must be adaptive and find solutions by cooperation, creativity and abductive reasoning. In the paper we tried to analyse on what extent a project and a project team can be handled as a complex adaptive system. More precisely, how the scientific and practical achievements of the theory of complex adaptive systems (CAS) can be used in project management. More exactly, we analyse the applicability of the Holonic Multi-Agent Systems in risk management of the projects. We consider the way in which holons handle the unexpected situations can be a model in project management.

Suggested Citation

  • Bakos Levente & Dumitrașcu Dănuț, 2017. "Holonic Handling the Unexpected in Project Management," Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, Sciendo, vol. 2(1), pages 137-143, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:brcebe:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:137-143:n:19
    DOI: 10.1515/cplbu-2017-0019
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/cplbu-2017-0019
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1515/cplbu-2017-0019?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrs:brcebe:v:2:y:2017:i:1:p:137-143:n:19. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.