Drift, adaptation, resilience and reliability: Toward an empirical clarification

Exploring Resilience – An Introduction

“…The current body of knowledge on complex adaptive systems and resilience has increased our understanding of organizations and the challenges they face in particularly in relation to social and technological complexity, but it suffers from being too generalized and abstract. Identification of what constitutes resilience has hardly been clarified under the onslaught of theorizing and individual empirical cases [16]. A recent systematic review demonstrates that some scientific efforts have been made to develop constructs and models that present relationships; however, these cannot be characterized as sufficient for theory building [10,17].…”

Safety I–II, resilience and antifragility engineering: a debate explained through an accident occurring on a mobile elevating work platform

“…The topic of resilience engineering has gained attention and importance in the recent literature for its potential applications in high reliability organizations or in systems where the high level of complexity requires a high level of adaptation from the human and machine perspectives [17]. Woods [18] identifies four different possible definitions of the term resilience: rebound, robustness, graceful extensibility and sustained adaptability.…”

Leadership in Resilient Organizations

“…Resilience has been defined in simple terms as a system's ability to "bounce back" after disturbances, and, through learning from those situations, to "bounce forward" and increase the system's adaptive capacity for handling surprises [1,2], thus incorporating reactive and proactive responses to uncertainty [3]. Much of what has been written about resilience aims to describe general characteristics of organizations which enable resilience, such as the necessity to continuously monitor, anticipate, respond, and learn [4] or to manage trade-offs in the face of challenged system boundaries, which Woods [2] has termed graceful extensibility.…”