Resilience in organizational communities

Abstract

In this article the subject of resilience is discussed. Resilience was first discussed in the organizational ecology literature. Nowadays, resilience is also be used in explaining industry structures. Resilience looks at the capability of a system or industry to absorb shocks without changing the organizational community. The organizational community changes when the populations in this community change. Populations can change because of perturbations in the environment. The research conducted so far stops at these perturbations. These perturbations are caused by underlying factors, therefore it is important to review this. By using a systematic literature review several cases are discussed, these cases showed different underlying factors that influence the degree of resilience in an organizational community. In the results section of the article several factors are discussed. These factors are divided into three categories; organizational factors, populational factors and environmental factors. Some of the factors discussed lower the resilience of an organizational community, and some factors indicate a high organizational community resilience. The goal of this research is to search for many different factors that influence the degree of resilience in an organizational community.