Organizational Resilience and Uncertainty

Samson O. Oladejo is a Lecturer in Business Management and Deputy Programme Leader for MSc International Business Suite at the School of Leadership, Management, and Marketing, Leicester Castle Business School within the Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University, UK.David A. Boye is a Lecturer in Business Management and a Fellow in higher education specialising in Innovation Management, Digital Innovation, Crowdsourcing, and Financial Technologies at De Montfort University, UK.Jayakumar Chinnasamy is a Lecturer in Education at the School of Education and Social Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.Oluwabunmi O. Adejumo is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

• 1. Introduction SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL NARRATIVES 2. Organisational Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda 3. The Knowledge-Innovation-Resilience Nexus 4. Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Resilience: Framework to a Volatile and Restrictive Business Environment SECTION II: EMPIRICAL CASES IN INDUSTRY 5. Enhancing performance-driven resilience of rice value chain actors through innovations adoption in Cameroon 6. Resilient Utilisation of Crowdsourcing for Innovation: The Process, Enablers and Barriers 7. The Impact of Foreign Aid on Democratic Governance and Organizational Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa 8. Entrepreneurship and resilience: How informal entrepreneurs leverage social capital for survival in developing economies 9. Building Strategic Cyber Resilience through PRAP Framework SECTION III: EMPIRICAL CASES IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE THIRD SECTOR 10. Resilience and Internationalisation in Higher Education: Overcoming Barriers to Global Engagement in Scottish Higher Education 11. Navigating Unemployment: The Role of Self-Directed Learning in Graduate Entrepreneurship 12. Entrepreneurial Resilience in the Third Sector in South-West Region of England: Strategies for Innovation and Achieving Sustainable Impact SECTION IV: MESO AND MESO CASES 13. Achieving resilience through soft system methodology in municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in Lagos Nigeria 14. Entrepreneurship in the Risk Society: Resilience, Vulnerability, and Youth Agency in Sub-Saharan Africa 15. Financial Development and Entrepreneurship at the Macro Level in Africa 16. Conclusion and Summary of the chapters