Horne and Orr, 1998: “Resilience
is a fundamental quality of
individuals, groups, organizations,
and systems as a whole to
respond productively to significant
change that disrupts the expected
pattern of events without engaging
in an extended period of
regressive behavior”
Mamouni Limnios et al, 2012:
offence (adaptation) vs. defense
(resistsance). Transience,
Rigidity, Vulnerability, and
Adaptability Quanrants
Riolli and Savicki, 2003:
"organizational structure and
processes including human
resource management
practices and organizational
culture could serve as
foundations to build
organizational resiliency"
Lebel et al, 2006: attributes
of governance and the
capacity to manage
resilience: 1. participation
(trust); 2. polycentric and
multilayered institutions; 3.
accountable authorities ->
self-organize, learn & adapt
Smit and Wandel, 2006: the
vulnerability of any system (at
any scale) is reflective of (or a
function of) the exposure and
sensitivity of that system to
hazardous conditions and the
ability or capacity or resilience
of the system to cope, adapt
or recover from the effects of
those conditions.
Mallack, 1998: aspects of
resilience in the health care
provider industry - six
factors: goal directed solution
seeking; avoidance; critical
understanding; role
dependence; source reliance;
and resource access.
Langvardt, 2007: Resilience -
Synergy, Nature, Process,
Roles, Resistance,
Commitment, Culture
(Dynamics of Human Change)
Dalziell and McManus,
2004: Improving system
resilience is a partner to risk
management: RM focuses
on probability and
consequences of particular
events occurring – how to
deal with ontological
uncertainties?; resilience
management provides one
strategy for dealing with
these events.
Somers, 2009: Traditionally
- a step-by-step plan is the
preferred outcome of ‘good’
crisis planning. Instead -
develop planning methods
that create internal
processes and
organizational structures
that build latent resilience
within organizations so that
they demonstrate positive
adaptive behaviors when
under stress.
Zhang and Liu, 2012: Four
dimensions of adaptive
capacity: (1) learning to live
with uncertainty and
change; (2) supporting and
promoting diversity and
highlighting the positive
connection between
diversity and redundancy;
(3) combining different
types of knowledge; and (4)
maintaining opportunities
for self-organization in the
direction of sustainability.
Difference b/w Crisis
Management & Resilience
McCubbin, 2001: resilience
from four interrelated but
distinct perspectives: (a) as
good outcomes despite
adversity, (b) as sustained
competence under stress (c)
as recovery from trauma and
(d) as the interaction between
protective and risk factors
ADAPTIVE FIT
Chakravarthy, 1982:
Adaptive Fit: unstable fit,
stable fit, and neutral fit.
Adaptive ability = Org
capacity (human) +
Material capacity (input
materials/finance/tech)
Adaptive specialization =
formulation of a strategy in
keeping with the firm's
resources Adaptive
generalization = improving
the material and
organizational capacities
of the firm, redesigning the
structure where necessary
to improve the firm's
organizational capacity.
Lengrick-Hall and Beck,
2005: Adaptive fit and
robust transformation (a
deliberately transient,
episodic response to a
new, yet fluid,
environmental condition)
Gunderson, 2000: Engineering
resilience (speed of return) requires
efficiency to return and maintain the
system at its desired state easily and
rapidly; and ecological resilience
(magnitude of disturbance that can
be absorbed before restructuring)
implies flexible systems and
processes that continue to function
even if efficiency is not maximized.
Social resilience - learning, trust and
engagement
McManus et al, 2008:
Situation Awareness,
Management of Keystone
Vulnerabilities, and Adaptive
Capacity
Hamel and Valikangas, 2003:
Resilience = capacity for
continuous reconstruction.
Requires innovation with respect
to those org values, processes,
and behaviors that
systematically favor
perpetuation over innovation.
Denhardt and Denhardt, 2010:
Resilience=ability to adapt
creatively and constructively to
change. Characteristics of
resilient org:
Redundant/excess capacity,
Robust, Flexible, Reliable,
Culture of respect&trust