Antifragile planning

Blečić, Ivan; Cecchini, Arnaldo

doi:10.1177/1473095219873365

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“…The two taxonomies reported at the bottom of Table 1 report the region's reactiveness within a hierarchical discourse. Blečić and Cecchini [26], in particular, define "resilience" as a complement of a more comprehensive condition of regional recovery called "antifragility". The ability to withstand the adverse events determined by the shock, without being damaged disproportionately, is instead considered a complement of the resilience, described as "robustness".…”

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Breaking the Black-Box of Regional Resilience: A Taxonomy Using a Dynamic Cumulative Shift-Share Occupational Approach

2020

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In the European literature on the regional and local development, the concept of resilience has progressively gained momentum, eventually overcoming that of competitiveness and posing a critical challenge for the future of territorial studies and the territorialisation of the policy discourse. In the current economic turmoil, the success of an urban and regional economy relies more and more on its capacity to react to sudden shocks in a positive and evolutionary perspective, i.e., in its resilience. Nevertheless, as a recent analysis of the employment dynamics of Italian metro-regions in the period before and after 2008 has demonstrated that the existing taxonomies may be distant from reality and hardly communicable. The paper proposes a taxonomy of regional resilience based on the consideration of the region’s capacity of both improving its employment rate during the pre-crisis period and overcoming the concurrent performance of the nation. Via a shift-share analysis of the employment in Italian metro-regions, the paper investigates the contribution of the sectoral structure of the local labour market in terms of economic resilience. The result is twofold: a geography of the dynamism of the territorial systems in Italy that diverges from some “classic” interpretative frameworks; a novel taxonomic approach to regional resilience.

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Breaking the Black-Box of Regional Resilience: A Taxonomy Using a Dynamic Cumulative Shift-Share Occupational Approach

2020

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“…Proposed by Taleb ( 2012 ), the concept can be applied (complementary to resilience) to spatial systems that not only withstand and recover from a shock but also benefit from it and thrive afterwards. There are at present emerging approaches in this field, focusing on the antifragility of the built environment and urban form (Sartorio et al, 2021 ), antifragile ecosystems (Equihua et al, 2020 ) and antifragile planning (Blečić & Cecchini, 2020 ). Integration of the latest societal challenges such as climate adaptation, environmental crisis, digital transformation, social inequalities, technological revolution, urban concentration and segregation and others (Brunetta & Caldarice, 2019 ).…”

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A Meta-Overview and Bibliometric Analysis of Resilience in Spatial Planning – the Relevance of Place-Based Approaches

Pascariu

Bănică

Nijkamp

2022

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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“…Antifragility is the ability to respond to a crisis by transforming the business model, possibly improving performance (Blečić and Cecchini 2019 ; Conz and Magnani 2020 ). Antifragility can manifest itself in the three main phases of crisis management (Ramezani and Camarinha-Matos 2020 ): readiness , that is the phase preceding the disaster; response , that is the actions implemented during and immediately after the crisis; recovery , or the actions that are implemented post-crisis.…”

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Thrive during a crisis: the role of digital technologies in fostering antifragility in small and medium-sized enterprises

Corvello

Verteramo

Nocella

et al. 2022

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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The crisis triggered by the COVID-19 emergency is changing the competitive landscape by pushing companies to adapt to sudden change. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that want to survive must innovate their business. Antifragility represents the capability of a system to absorb shocks and get better, allowing it to overcome a crisis and improve its performance. The use of digital technologies by enterprises is expected to play an important role in building antifragility. The aim of this paper is to study how digital technologies can contribute to the development of antifragility in SMEs. This study analyzed the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis of six small and medium-sized enterprises located in Calabria, South of Italy. All the six enterprises have turned the crisis into a business opportunity developing new products, investing in marketing and communication, or starting new collaborations. The research identifies the factors leveraged by the investigated organizations that enabled this anti fragile behavior. They include slack financial resources, strategic agility, and relations with research institutions. The study highlights the positive impact of digital technologies in developing antifragility. Results were summarized into research propositions to be tested in future confirmatory studies. The findings of the study are useful for researchers interested in antifragility and digital technologies in SMEs. The results are also important for entrepreneurs and managers of SMEs, since they can support their decisions in terms of survival and transformation of their companies.

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Antifragile planning

Cited by 22 publications

References 47 publications

Breaking the Black-Box of Regional Resilience: A Taxonomy Using a Dynamic Cumulative Shift-Share Occupational Approach

Breaking the Black-Box of Regional Resilience: A Taxonomy Using a Dynamic Cumulative Shift-Share Occupational Approach

A Meta-Overview and Bibliometric Analysis of Resilience in Spatial Planning – the Relevance of Place-Based Approaches

Thrive during a crisis: the role of digital technologies in fostering antifragility in small and medium-sized enterprises

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