Organizational Resilience

Maria Laura Frigotto is Professor in Organization Theory and Management at the University of Trento, Italy.Rómulo Pinheiro is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Agder, Norway.

• Foreword; Martina LinnenlueckeChapter 1. Resilience in and for the social sciences: Bridging disciplines and concepts; Rómulo Pinheiro and Maria Laura FrigottoChapter 2. Resilience as paradox, paradoxes of resilience; Miguel Pina e Cunha, Marco Berti, and Arménio RegoChapter 3. Resilience through a power lens; Stewart R. Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Luca Giustiniano, and Arménio RegoChapter 4. Resilience as narrative: Illustrations from the EU’s COVID-19 discourses; Maria Laura Frigotto, Rómulo Pinheiro, and Mitchell YoungChapter 5. Preparing for threatening instability: Guidelines for building the resilient organization; Arjen BoinChapter 6. Hybridity, resilience and organizations; Jan-Erik Johanson and Jarmo Vakkuri OPEN ACCESSChapter 7. Organizational resilience and sustainability as neighboring terms: Working towards conceptual clarity; Robyn Keast, Laura Ripoll Gonzalez, Hannah D. Murphy, and Amanda ScottChapter 8. Resilience pathways towards sustainability: A configurational approach; Maria Laura Frigotto, Alice Tomaselli, and Dror EtzionChapter 9. Sustainable development and transformative resilience: A two-way link; Péter Benczúr, Jessica Cariboni, Enrico Giovannini, and Anna Rita Manca OPEN ACCESS

In this era of ‘polycrisis’, governments, business and communities across the globe are seeking to boost their resilience. Far from being a catch-all strategy for our times, the quest for resilience raises fundamental questions of values, power and responsibility. This poignant, multidisciplinary volume shows us what that looks like in a variety of contexts. It offers a treasure trove for scholars and practitioners of organizational design, crisis preparedness and sustainability governance.