| Author(s) |
Definition |
| Starr, Newfrock and Delurey (2003) |
Organizational resilience is the ability to withstand systemic discontinuities and adapt to new risky environmental conditions. |
| Sutcliffe and Vogus (2003) |
Organizational resilience is the capability of adjustment and adaptation to challenging, increasingly complex and incomprehensible conditions, rapid change and hyper competition. |
| Lengnick-Hall and Beck (2005) |
Organizational resilience is the capacity of the organization to confront and overcome major challenges. |
| Fiksel (2006) |
Organizational resilience is survival, adaptation and growth capacity under turbulent changing conditions. |
| McDonald (2006) |
Organizational resilience is the ability to manage the variability and uncertainty in the environment and to adapt to the needs of the environment. |
| Seville, Brunsdon, Dantas, Le Masurier, Wilkinson and Vargo (2008) |
Organizational resilience is the ability to survive and potentially grow in times of crisis. |
| Comfort, Boin and Demchak (2010) |
Organizational resilience is the "bounce back" capacity in the event of a disturbance. |
| Lengnick-Hall, Beck and Lengnick-Hall (2011) |
Organizational resilience is the capacity to effectively absorb, develop situation-specific responses to, and ultimately engage in transformative activities to capitalize on disruptive events that threaten an organization. |
| Gilbert, Eyring and Foster (2012) |
Organizational resilience is the ability to survive in the face of threats, transform the organization into changing conditions properly and grow even in change. |
| Mafabi et al. (2012) |
Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to be proactive and/or reactive to cope with environmental demands and threats. |
