Bouncing Back: Building Resilience Through Social and Environmental Practices in the Context of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

• DOI: 10.1177/0149206317708854
• Publication Date: 2017-05-16T23:15:01Z
• Authors: Mark DesJardine; Pratima Bansal; Yang Yang
• Keywords: Resilience

Even though organizational researchers have acknowledged the role of social and environmental business practices in contributing to resilience, this work remains scarce, possibly because difficulties measuring resilience. In paper, we aim partly remedy issue by two ways which resilience manifests through outcomes a generalized disturbance—namely, severity loss, captures stability dimension time recovery, flexibility dimension. By isolating these variables, can then theorize types that contribute Specifically, argue strategic more than do tactical practices. We test our theory analyzing responses 963 U.S.-based firms global financial crisis find evidence support hypotheses.