Modelling organizational resilience structure: insights to assess resilience integrating bounce-back and bounce-forward
European Journal of Innovation Management
ISSN: 1460-1060
Article publication date: 16 June 2022
Issue publication date: 2 January 2024
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to model organizational resilience structure. Based on the central insights of the scientific literature, organizational resilience is modelled as the result of an organizational capacity to bounce-back and bounce-forward.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on a quantitative empirical study to support the structural perspective of organizational resilience and investigate the relationships among the dimensions to test the above hypothesis by applying confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM) methods.
Findings
The results confirmed three models that could be adopted to assess organizational resilience. The first model endorsed endogenous positive interrelationship among all three dimensions. The second model indicated that bounce-back dimensions, i.e. network and leadership and culture, have endogenous effects. Only the leadership and culture dimension is positively associated with a bounce-forward, i.e. change-ready and learning dimension. And the third model demonstrated that the network dimension is linked to leadership and culture, which is linked to the change ready and learning dimension.
Originality/value
This study attempts to provide empirical evidence identifying the links between the bounce-back and bounce-forward stages of organizational resilience. These results contribute to the development of organizational resilience theory, confirming the conceptual statements that resilience is the ability to return to the routine and to adapt to the changing environment by overcoming dynamic events, stressing the idea of the importance of enhanced learning capacity, which allows for growth by constantly learning from oneself by gaining unique experiences.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: This research received funding from European Social Fund No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-19-0218 under a grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT).
Declaration of competing interest: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work reported in this paper.
Citation
Bartuseviciene, I., Butkus, M. and Schiuma, G. (2024), "Modelling organizational resilience structure: insights to assess resilience integrating bounce-back and bounce-forward", European Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 153-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJIM-04-2022-0180
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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