BuR - Business Research· 2019
Organizational resilience: a capability-based conceptualization
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Short summary
Organizational resilience is conceptualized as a meta-capability composed of three successive stages: anticipation, coping, and adaptation, each supported by underlying capabilities.
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Key points
- Organizational resilience is defined as a meta-capability, integrating various underlying capabilities.
- Resilience is structured into three sequential stages: anticipation, coping, and adaptation.
- Each stage is characterized by specific capabilities essential for effective crisis management and future success.
- The paper formulates propositions to guide future empirical investigations into organizational resilience.
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Abstract
Abstract In highly volatile and uncertain times, organizations need to develop a resilience capacity which enables them to cope effectively with unexpected events, bounce back from crises, and even foster future success. Although academic interest in organizational resilience has steadily grown in recent years, there is little consensus about what resilience actually means and how it is composed. More knowledge is particularly needed about organizational capabilities that constitute resilience, as well as conditions for their development. This paper aims to make a contribution to this heterogeneous research field by deepening the understanding of the complex and embedded construct of organizational resilience. We conceptualize resilience as a meta-capability and decompose the construct into its individual parts. Inspired by process-based studies, we suggest three successive resilience stages (anticipation, coping, and adaptation) and give an overview of underlying capabilities that together form organizational resilience. Based on this outline, we discuss relationships and interactions of the different resilience stages as well as main antecedents and drivers. We formulate propositions that can act as a foundation for future empirical work.
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