Organizing for Resilience: Leading and Managing Risk in a Disruptive World

ISBN-13: 9780367680459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 318 str.

Christopher Williams; Jacqueline Jing You

Opis

The Resilient Organization provides a fresh and novel insight into how leaders can prepare their organizations to face up to shocks and disruptions in a turbulent and unpredictable world. Cases are presented to bring the topics to life.

Spis treści

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: A Resilient Past
2. Individual Resilience
3. Small Firms, Big Shocks
4. Big Firms, Isolated Shocks
5. Big Firms, Enterprise-wide Shocks
6. Resilience in an Economic Ecosystem
Part II: A Resilient Future
7. Synthesis: The Resilience Landscape
8. Leadership Implications: Organizing with a Resilience Mind-set
9. Conclusion Appendix: The four Cases of Resilience

O autorze

Christopher Williams is Professor in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department at NEOMA Business School in France. His research interests include international strategy, innovation in international firms and contexts, and organizational resilience. Before entering academia in 2007, Dr Williams spent two decades in industry, mostly in innovative and international environments. His research appears in journals such as Asia Pacific Journal of Management, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Research Policy. He has also published a range of teaching cases on strategy and innovative issues in international contexts with Ivey Publishing and is author of Venturing in International Firms: Contexts and Cases in a High-Tech World (Routledge, 2018) and Management Consultancy for Innovation (Routledge, 2019).

Jacqueline Jing You is a doctoral graduate from Durham University Business School in the UK. Her research interests include organizational resilience and disruption, inter-organizational relationships and organizational ecosystems. She worked in industry with international companies and as an entrepreneur before her doctoral studies. Jacqueline has published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism and The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Sustainability in the Digital Era. She holds degrees from the University of Shanghai Science and Technology and the University of St Andrews.