Building traits for organizational resilience through balancing organizational structures

被引:130
作者
Andersson, Thomas [1 ]
Caker, Mikael [2 ,3 ]
Tengblad, Stefan [1 ]
Wickelgren, Mikael [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Skovde, Skovde, Sweden
[2] Univ Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
[3] NTNU Trondheim Business Sch, Trondheim, Norway
关键词
Organizational resilience; Organizational structure; Balancing; Decentralization; Risk awareness; IDENTITY; LEADERSHIP; RESOURCE;
D O I
10.1016/j.scaman.2019.01.001
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
This paper describes and explains how balancing organizational structures can build traits for organizational resilience. Organizational resilience is a holistic and complex concept. In this paper, we move beyond focusing on sudden and disruptive events in favour of anticipating the unexpected in daily organizing. Organizational resilience is understood here as building traits of risk awareness, preference for cooperation, agility and improvisation and is analysed by means of a longitudinal qualitative case study. The paper contributes to the field by showing how balancing organizational structures can foster organizational resilience traits. We show that power distribution and normative control can create preparedness for unexpected events and foster action orientation at the same time as supporting organizational alignment.
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页码:36 / 45
页数:10
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