Organisational resilience: the role of organisational culture from an organisational life cycle perspective

Abstract

Purpose

This study examines the influence of organisational culture on organisational resilience from an organisational life cycle (OLC) perspective.

Design/methodology/approach

An online survey questionnaire was used to collect data from 410 middle-level managers in Australian business organisations using Qualtrics, a well-known international data collection organisation.

Findings

The findings reveal that the respect for people/teamwork cultural dimension is positively associated with organisational resilience across all OLC stages (i.e. birth, growth, maturity and revival stages). In addition, the outcome-oriented (innovation) culture dimension enhance organisational resilience in the growth and revival (maturity) stages.

Originality/value

The findings contribute to the limited literature by providing empirical evidence on how specific organisational cultural dimensions can enhance organisational resilience across different development stages of organisations (i.e. the birth, growth, maturity and revival stages).

Citation

Su, S., Baird, K. and Munir, R. (2023), "Organisational resilience: the role of organisational culture from an organisational life cycle perspective", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 44 No. 3, pp. 403-421. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-11-2021-0631