TY - GEN
T1 - Strategic resilience development
T2 - A study using Delphi
AU - Vidal, Raphaela
AU - Carvalho, Helena Maria Lourenço
AU - Cruz-Machado, Virgílio António
N1 - Sem pdf
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Contingency
KW - Delphi
KW - Resilience
KW - Strategy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84919339835&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-55122-2_107
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-55122-2_107
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84919339835
SN - 978-3-642-55121-5
VL - Part VII
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 1245
EP - 1255
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management
A2 - Xu, Jiuping
A2 - Cruz-Machado, Virgílio António
A2 - Lev, Benjamin
A2 - Nickel, Stefan
PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
CY - Berlin Heidelberg
ER -