Abstract:
Recently, the concept of resilience has gained new momentum in organization studies.
It is held to be a very promising concept to explain how organizations can survive and
thrive amidst adversity or turbulence. However, findings from an earlier review about
resilience in the organizational and business context show that, although empirical re search on the concept has increased, there is still a need for more clarity in terms of
its measurement. The aim of this paper is to present a systematic review of the orga nizational resilience construct that covers both conceptual and operational issues. We
discuss why researchers criticize resilience for being fuzzy and move on to identify and
analyse existing literature under the lens of construct development and taxonomies.
With this study, we aim to point out conceptual problems for future researchers to
address conceptual clarity and to develop a clearer, more parsimonious concept. We
conclude with a suggestion about future measurement
