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The Search For Understanding Organizational Resilience

Table 3:

Concept Relationship between organizational resilience and other organizational concepts
Strategic Planning Resilient organizations,focus strategic planning processes. For these organizations, strategic planning is an adaptive mechanism for meeting the environmental requirements, gaining competitive advantage and developing and directing the organization (De Olivera Teixeira and Werther, 2013).have a strong sense of purpose, basic values and a unique vision (Lengnick-Hall et al., 2011).make business continuity planning to ensure that core business processes are robust and reliable (McAslan, 2010).have a wide range of competitive action plans to respond to changes timely in the market and adapt to unexpected situations (Lengnick-Hall and Beck, 2005).
Knowledge management Resilient organizations,have knowledge sources that provide adaptability and gain competitive advantage (Mafabi et al., 2012).encourage the sharing of internal knowledge between organizational members and units (Demmer, Vickery and Calantone, 2011); ensure internal and external knowledge management (Seville et al., 2015).use the necessary mechanisms to gather knowledge from various sources to identify opportunities (to benefit from the advantages of change) and cope with challenges (Richtnér and Löfsten, 2014).
Innovation and innovative approach Resilient organizations,change the way they do business (Chaharbaghi, Adcroft and Willis, 2005) and encourage continuous innovation and innovative approaches (Seville et al., 2015) to meet environmental demands and changing needs.refine, combine and transform existing knowledge into new practices (e.g., products) (Akgün and Keskin, 2014).encourage creativity far beyond ordinary and try to find opportunities that allow to develop new skills (Lengnick-Hall and Beck, 2005).
Learning Resilient organizations,create a safe (high-trust) learning environments (Seville et al., 2015).focus on excellent performance in the direction of current goals and support learning and development (Robb, 2000).build structures and mechanisms that enable learning and development of different behaviors (Lengnick-Hall et al., 2011).
Organizational awareness Resilient organizations,have a great awareness of themselves, their stakeholders and the environment (Robb, 2000).create and implement the processes to identify, analyze, assess and react risks and threats (McAslan, 2010).define problems, prioritize them and mobilize their resources for solution (Sullivan-Taylor and Branicki, 2011).question the current basic assumptions and constantly search for a full understanding of the truth (Lengnick-Hall and Beck, 2009).
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