Title: Conceptualizing Organizational Resilience at an SME level

Authors

  • Talha Zubair Ahmad Khan (Lecturer) Faculty of Management Sciences, UCP Business School University: University Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan Author
  • Waqas Farooq Assistant Professor, School: Hailey College of Commerce, University: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan Author
  • Ahmed Faisal Siddiqi Professor, UCP Business School Univesity of Central Punjab Lahore Pakistan Author
  • Muhammad Salman Shabbir Assistant Professor Department of Management, College of Commerce and Business Administration Author
  • Mohammed Ali Bait Ali Sulaiman Department of Business Studies Salalah College of Technology, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61841/ktaxjk09

Keywords:

Organizational Resilience, Dynamic Capabilities View, Small Medium Enterprise, Organizational Learning, Pakistan

Abstract

There seems to have greater interest in studying organizational resilience in recent years. Organizational resilience has mostly been understood as a unique organizational resource that can be deployed under stiff environmental conditions in order to survive, a traditional conceptualization of the subject phenomenon that put emphasis on the resources-based perspective. However, there seems to be less consensus over the conceptualization of organizational resilience specifically at small medium enterprise level of analysis. We present a dynamic shift from a traditional resource-based view of organizational resilience to a dynamic capability’s perspective. Our findings suggest that organizational resilience necessarily entails dynamic processes of sensing, reconfigurations, and organizational learning that not only focuses on crises specific reactive strategies but also on the proactive aspects of preparedness.



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Ahmad Khan (Lecturer), T. Z., Farooq, W., Siddiqi, A. F., Shabbir, M. S., & Sulaiman, M. A. B. A. (2020). Title: Conceptualizing Organizational Resilience at an SME level. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24(7), 5724-5747. https://doi.org/10.61841/ktaxjk09