ORGANISATIONAL RESILIENCE AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Authors

  • Mirjana Radović Marković FIMEK, Business Academy University, SERBIA

Keywords:

Small and medium-sized enterprises organizational resilience, building resilience, globalization

Abstract

In this paper is presented a theoretical and conceptual framework of the organizational resilience and business continuity. The framework builds on various sources of literature and on findings from complexity theory that highlights the centrality of unforeseen events and unanticipated consequences. Understanding the way organizations are resilient in the real world is crucial for thinking about developing strategies to enhance their resilience. This paper showed that the study of resilience has become more important in the last several years because people are more aware of the consequences of natural and humanmade disasters.

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Published

30.07.2018

How to Cite

Radović Marković, M. (2018). ORGANISATIONAL RESILIENCE AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Resilience, 1(1), 5–11. Retrieved from https://jebr.fimek.edu.rs/index.php/jebr/article/view/71

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