A Classification Model of Social Sustainability Risks in Manufacturing Product Development

In sustainability context, social risks are having equal importance with technical and environmental risks. However, most previous studies focusing on product development risks are mostly paying attention to operational risk and overlooking an effort to classify socially oriented sustainability risks in product development. Scientific efforts attempt to classify social sustainability risks in product development are scare in reference. Motivated by this gap, this paper presents a pilot study in categorizing social sustainability risks from literature survey. Our initiative presented three categories of product social sustainability risks namely regulatory, personal and consumer and product sustainability risks. Departing from this initial effort, opportunities for further investigations are also presented.