Resilient Organizations

Responsible Leadership in Times of Uncertainty

Guia Beatrice Pirotti author Markus Venzin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Dec '16

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This book studies the development of organizational resilience in the wake of a crisis.

This book develops a model for organization resilience - the ability to adapt, endure, bounce back and then thrive in the wake of a crisis - with a strong emphasis on responsible leadership. It will be suitable for graduates studying strategy and global management and for reflective practitioners.Recent financial crises have shown that firms need to create more robust business models. However, it seems that the task of developing resilience - a firm's ability to adapt, endure, bounce back and then thrive, despite the shock - appears on most managers' strategic issue list only after such a shock has occurred. Managers, through responsible leadership, can make explicit choices that will enhance their firm's resilience, increasing their chances of anticipating and avoiding these shocks. This book is the result of a three-year research project across seven industries, and is aimed at improving the understanding of why some firms are better than others in dealing with market turbulence. Pirotti and Venzin develop a measure for organizational resilience, identifying resilience drivers and demonstrating how firms can appropriate value from high resilience levels. It is a valuable read for graduates taking a course in strategy and global management and for reflective practitioners.

'Pirotti and Venzin address one of the most important and perplexing questions that executives face today: why do some companies sustain high performance in a turbulent, unpredictable business environment while most cannot? Drawing upon their own research and a diversity of wider sources, the authors offer practical guidance on how to build resilient enterprises.' Robert M. Grant, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan

ISBN: 9781107164666

Dimensions: 255mm x 180mm x 13mm

Weight: 460g

172 pages