Theorization on the Nexus of Crisis, Resilience, and Digital Agility

Abstract

This section introduction will study the nexus of crisis, resilience, and digital agility, drawing on the knowledge from the section paper. The concepts of resilience and agility are both social and personal. We lean on Dafermos (Rethinking cultural-historical theory: a dialectical perspective to Vygotsky. Springer, Singapore, 2018), who, with reference to Vygotsky’s research, stated that the underestimation of the problem of personality was one of the basic shortcomings of his own research program. This section increases our theoretical understanding of the ways in which the personal (motivation, traits, e.g. engagement, and capabilities in individuals), institutional, and societal are entwined. We sum up the metaknowledge of the chapters by presenting a model pinpointing Resilient Digital Agility with three crucial actions; recover, respond, reimagine and recraft.