Organizing For Resilience

Christopher Williams is Professor in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department at NEOMA Business School in France. His research interests include international strategy, innovation in international firms and contexts, and organizational resilience. Before entering academia in 2007, Dr Williams spent two decades in industry, mostly in innovative and international environments. His research appears in journals such as Asia Pacific Journal of Management, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Research Policy. He has also published a range of teaching cases on strategy and innovative issues in international contexts with Ivey Publishing and is author of Venturing in International Firms: Contexts and Cases in a High-Tech World (Routledge, 2018) and Management Consultancy for Innovation (Routledge, 2019). Jacqueline Jing You is a doctoral graduate from Durham University Business School in the UK. Her research interests include organizational resilience and disruption, inter-organizational relationships and organizational ecosystems. She worked in industry with international companies and as an entrepreneur before her doctoral studies. Jacqueline has published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism and The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Sustainability in the Digital Era. She holds degrees from the University of Shanghai Science and Technology and the University of St Andrews.

"This volume offers a much-needed addition to resilience studies, focusing on the often- overlooked need for leaders to consider potential environmental disruptions as a regular part of their strategic planning processes. The authors do a remarkable job of illustrating this process through a series of case studies at distinct yet overlapping levels of analysis. The resulting insights, which build on useful theory from multiple disciplines, enable the authors to draw implications for the need for leaders to quite intentionally chart and navigate the resilience landscapes in which their organizations are situated. Students, scholars, and managers alike will benefit greatly from learning how to think and act in ways that enable them to organize for resilience." - Dr. William Kahn, Boston University, Questrom School of Business, USA"This very accessible book approaches the issues around organisational resilience from a grounded academic start point but then is able to, very deftly, weave in real world examples and situations that demonstrate the value of resilience-related practice. In this way, I see this book being of great interest and use to both practitioners and academics alike, on one of the most important issues of the day." - Dr. Ran Bharma, Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical & Manufacturing Engineering, UK "Williams and You’s book is a very timely and insightful addition to the literature on organizational resilience and will be useful both for the academic community as well as managers and leaders grappling with disruptions at a strategic level. The authors cover a wide range of case evidence and literature set in a multi-level framework and provide an interesting metaphor in terms of their depiction of the ‘Resilience Landscape’." - Dr. Yanto Chandra, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK"The book 'Organizing for Resilience' provides an important addition to the literature on organizational resilience. The book offers analytical insights across multiple analytical levels: the resilience of individual employees within an organization, the resilience of organizations when confronted with shocks and disruptions, and the resilience of communities and economies when confronted with large-scale disruptions such as those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners alike and offers valuable case examples for leaders of both small and large organizations who seek to prepare their organizations for an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable future." - Professor Martina Linnenluecke, Macquarie University, AU

• Preface1. IntroductionPart I: A Resilient Past2. Individual Resilience3. Small Firms, Big Shocks4. Big Firms, Isolated Shocks5. Big Firms, Enterprise-wide Shocks6. Resilience in an Economic EcosystemPart II: A Resilient Future7. Synthesis: The Resilience Landscape8. Leadership Implications: Organizing with a Resilience Mind-set9. Conclusion Appendix: The four Cases of Resilience