Organizational resilience as response to a crisis: case of COVID-19 crisis
Continuity & Resilience Review
ISSN: 2516-7502
Article publication date: 2 June 2021
Issue publication date: 16 November 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the contribution of organizational resilience to the capacity of companies to cope with the COVID-19 crisis in a real organizational context through an empirical study of 16 Tunisian companies affected by the crisis.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors adopt a qualitative study based on 16 semi-structured interviews to describe better the functioning of the processes of resilience in a real organizational context.
Findings
The real contribution consists in confirming a positive contribution of resilience to resistance in the face of the COVID-19 crisis in a Tunisian context through exceptional measures that have not previously been adopted by the companies concerned by this study.
Originality/value
The authors believe that they are the first to study the theme of resilience as a resistance mechanism in the face of the COVID-19 crisis in a Tunisian context. From this comes the originality of the research.
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Citation
Mokline, B. and Ben Abdallah, M.A. (2021), "Organizational resilience as response to a crisis: case of COVID-19 crisis", Continuity & Resilience Review, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 232-247. https://doi.org/10.1108/CRR-03-2021-0008
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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