Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: what builds organizational resilience capacity?
International Journal of Emerging Markets
ISSN: 1746-8809
Article publication date: 26 December 2022
Issue publication date: 28 October 2024
Abstract
Purpose
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has severely disrupted businesses around the world. To address the impact of operational and strategic business disruptions, this paper contributes to the practice of a firm's management in terms of identifying the determinants of organizational resilience (OR) and creating a hierarchical model of the potential sources of a firm's adaptive capability.
Design/methodology/approach
A novel research framework integrating Pareto analysis, grey theory and total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) has been applied to, first, identify the sources of a company's resilience and, second, to determine contextual relations among these sources of OR.
Findings
The findings of the survey highlight three primary sources that allow companies to build companies' resilience: access to financial resources, digitization level and supply chain (SC) collaboration. The authors' model shows that resilience cannot be viewed as a particular feature but rather as a dynamic intertwined network of different co-dependent sources.
Research limitations/implications
The proposed hierarchical model indicates that the most crucial sources of company's resilience in the recent pandemic are access to financial resources, digitization level and SC collaboration.
Originality/value
The study takes an original investigation on cognitive grounds, touching on the problem of firms' resilience to the unique nature of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also represents one of the few attempts to use integrated Pareto analysis, grey theory and TISM to examine this critical area of firm management.
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Acknowledgements
This contribution draws on the final results of the “Determinants of company’s adaptability to crisis situation - the case of COVID-19” project. The project was co-financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange within the Urgency Grants program.
Citation
Matysek-Jędrych, A., Mroczek-Dąbrowska, K. and Kania, A. (2024), "Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: what builds organizational resilience capacity?", International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 19 No. 10, pp. 3272-3302. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-06-2022-0948
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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