Rising Every Time We Fall: Organizational Fortitude and Response to Adversities
通过对一家经历四次重大逆境的英国老牌家族企业的质性研究，提出组织坚韧概念，揭示企业如何应对多重意外挑战并实现繁荣，对关注组织生存与发展的管理者与学者有参考价值。
The role of organizational resilience enabling firms to respond to adversity and survive has become ever more critical in the wake of an increasingly unpredictable external environment. Yet, while we understand the importance of resilience in responding to a major adversity, we have little appreciation for how firms are affected and react when facing multiple adversities over time, or how multilevel factors might impose on this process. These are crucial issues given that adversities are not necessarily single, isolated, or infrequent episodes. By studying a long-established family firm in the United Kingdom that experienced four major adversities, we identify the process that enabled it not only to survive but also to thrive. In this qualitative study, we introduce the notion of organizational fortitude to describe the approach that a firm develops to cope with the challenges of multiple unexpected adversities and highlight how multilevel factors combine to foster organizational fortitude.