Original title: Organizational resilience: a capability-based conceptualization
Organizational resilience is an organization’s ability to handle unexpected events, recover from crises, and support future success. This paper describes resilience as a meta-capabilityA broad organizational ability made up of several smaller capabilities.: a broad ability made up of smaller capabilities. It groups those capabilities into three stages: anticipation, coping, and adaptation. The authors also discuss what helps these stages develop and how they affect one another.
Imagine a family getting ready for a storm. It is hard to prepare for every possibility, respond well when the storm hits, and then adjust how the family gets ready next time. In this paper, preparing ahead matches anticipation, responding matches coping, and changing plans afterward matches adaptation; together, these abilities make the family more able to deal with trouble.
When unexpected events disrupt an organization, its ability to respond can affect whether it recovers and succeeds later. This paper gives researchers and organizations a clearer way to think about resilience by breaking it into stages and the capabilities that support them.
The paper offers a conceptual account and propositions, not empirical tests of whether the proposed stages or capabilities improve resilience in practice. The abstract does not specify the individual capabilities, the conditions for developing them, or how the propositions might be tested.
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Organizational resilience: a capability-based conceptualization — Stephanie Duchek — BuR - Business Research — doi:10.1007/s40685-019-0085-7
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