Resilience: the concept, a literature review and future directions

R Bhamra, S Dani, K Burnard - International journal of production …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In an ever-more interconnected world (social, technological and environmental), no
organisation can retain a competitive position and survive disruptions as an independent …

Adaptive capacity and its assessment

NL Engle - Global environmental change, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the concept of adaptive capacity and various approaches to assessing it,
particularly with respect to climate variability and change. I find that adaptive capacity is a …

Organisational resilience: development of a conceptual framework for organisational responses

K Burnard, R Bhamra - International Journal of Production …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Over recent years, the concept of resilience has gained increasing support within the
academic community. Given the potentially devastating implications of disruptions …

Inscribed strategies: Exploring the organizational nature of strategic lock-in

J Koch - Organization Studies, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
An organization's ability to act strategically under conditions of path dependence relies not
only on the particular form of a strategic path but also on how this path is inscribed in an …

From microactions to macrostructure and back: A structurational approach to the evolution of organizational networks

R Whitbred, F Fonti, C Steglich… - Human Communication …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Structuration theory (ST) and network analysis are promising approaches for studying the
emergence of communication networks. We offer a model that integrates the conceptual …

The capacity of locally bound tourism firms to respond to climate variability and long-term change: qualitative case studies on organizational learning in the Austrian …

S Helgenberger - Tourism Planning & Development, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The growing knowledge on business options in the Alpine winter tourism sector to respond
to the impacts of climate change is not matched by a sufficient understanding of the required …

Raising questions: How long does it take, how much does it cost, and what will we have when we are done? What we do not know about enterprise transformation

S Rifkin - Journal of Enterprise Transformation, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Though we speak about transformation, we know little about even the most rudimentary
aspects of organizational change. This is less a gap and more of an abyss: we have …

Factors influencing adaptive capacity in the reorganization of forest management in Alaska

C Beier - Ecology and Society, 2011 - JSTOR
Several studies of US National Forests suggest that declines of their associated forest
products industries were driven by synergistic changes in federal governance and market …

[PDF][PDF] The role of organisational resilience in maintaining long term performance, especially after undergoing major organisational changes: a consideration of the …

O Otulana - 2011 - core.ac.uk
ABSTRACT A lot has been said about change. For example, it is widely recognised that “the
only constant is change”(Heraclitus, 470 BC). As such,“no sensible decision can be made …

Organizational commitment to sales

WJ Johnston, LD Peters - 2011 - academic.oup.com
This article examines organizational commitment to sales. It shows several macro-trends in
sales force management that impact the way in which organizations may support the role …