Managing Risk and Resilience

Bringing Africa In: Promising Directions for Management Research

“…Beyond the interests of particular firms, there are critically important management questions arising from the challenges of building resilience in vulnerable communities (van der Vegt, Essens, Wahlstrom, & George, 2015), including increasing food and nutrition security, providing health care to remote and underserved communities, strengthening education at all levels and ensuring its inclusiveness, and myriad other socioeconomic challenges. Management scholarship has the potential to learn from and the ability to meaningfully contribute to understanding of the implications of these vast needs for organization design, organizational agility, and interorganizational collaboration.…”

Organizational Resilience: The Theoretical Model and Research Implication

“…Some scholars thought that organizational resilience is contextual which means a resilience specific to a certain situation. It is important to realize that resilience arises from a complex interplay of many factors at different levels of analysis Van Der Vegt et al, 2015 [20] ). [13] ) and Cunha et al (2013) [19] , this paper regard that organizational resilience is influenced by many factors, many levels.…”

“…The academic community is already aware of the urgency of resilience and has some development in this area. However, there is a lack of research on the measurement, the realization mechanism and the relationship with other organizational variables, the advanced discussions of the organization's resilience developed slowly (Vegt et al 2015) [20] . Linnenluecke 2017 [11] pointed out that the context of resilience, organizing for resilience, measuring resilience and multi-level and cross disciplinary work are the primary research in future.…”

The management of natural resources: an overview and research agenda

“…Given unpredictable externalities and complex resource interactions, firms will need to engage with stakeholders in proactive ways. Models of organizing that include public and private organizations working together with civil society to manage social resilience and welfare will raise new questions of organizational design, coordination, incentives and goal alignment in shaping complex global agendas and implementing coordinated actions across nations and organizations (van der Vegt et al, 2015). For example, public-private partnership models in health care (for example, Roehrich et al, 2014) may well be extended to natural resource sustainability initiatives that involve civil society, organizations and governments.…”

“…AMJ editorials on climate change as well as risk and resilience highlight the growing importance of organizational action to address large-scale, seemingly intractable, societal grand challenges (Howard-Grenville et al, 2014;van der Vegt et al, 2015). In this editorial, we review past work in AMJ, and, not unexpectedly, find that, while we have made expansive use of the term 'resources', specifically when it pertains to employee resources and human assets, the focus on natural resources has lagged significantly behind.…”