Abstract
Resilience in strategic perspective is related to a continuous organizational development, anticipating and adjusting to environment changes, fostering organizations with more capacity to bounce back from disturbance and thrive. This paper attempts to fill a gap in literature identifying critical factors that promote Strategic Resilience. First, the Strategic Resilience concept is reviewed using Contingency Theory and Organizational Development as theoretical lens. From this theoretical study was derived a set of 11 promoting factors Strategic Resilience. In a second stage, academics and experts in management field were consulted about the factors relevancy. The Delphi technique was used to guarantee a consensus of ideas from those specialists, allowing the topic discussion, but assuring anonymity. The results suggests the existence of 10 promoting Strategic Resilience factors, among them “Leadership” and “Capacity of change” achieved total unanimity among the experts, but “Robust strategy” and “Organizational structure” achieved the smallest consensus. This paper contributes to theory building by proposing factors that help organizations in strategic level to get preparedness, allowing the alignment of strategies, responding a crises situation and succeed.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management |
Subtitle of host publication | Focused on Computing and Engineering Management |
Editors | Jiuping Xu, Virgílio António Cruz-Machado, Benjamin Lev, Stefan Nickel |
Place of Publication | Berlin Heidelberg |
Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Pages | 1245-1255 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Volume | Part VII |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-642-55122-2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-642-55121-5 |
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Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | 8th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management, ICMSEM 2014 - Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 25 Jul 2014 → 27 Jul 2014 Conference number: 8th http://www.icmsem.org/past/201501/8.html |
Publication series
Name | Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing |
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Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Volume | 281 |
ISSN (Print) | 2194-5357 |
Conference
Conference | 8th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management, ICMSEM 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | ICMSEM 2014 |
Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Lisbon |
Period | 25/07/14 → 27/07/14 |
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Keywords
- Contingency
- Delphi
- Resilience
- Strategy