The resilience web: Interconnections, links and traps.

Area of Science:

• Business Management
• Organizational Resilience
• Risk Management

Background:

• Business continuity management (BCM) is crucial for organizational resilience, enabling sustained viability and functionality.
• Organizations face numerous factors influencing their ability to maintain resilience in dynamic environments.
• Understanding these influences is vital for proactive risk management and strategic planning.

Purpose of the Study:

• To analyze potential damaging influences on organizations.
• To evaluate the complex linkages between various organizational threats.
• To explore how these influences interact and impact organizational resilience.

Main Methods:

• Analysis of organizational damaging influences.
• Evaluation of the range and depth of interconnections between influences.
• Conceptualization of a 'resilience web' model.

Main Results:

• Identified multiple factors that can damage organizations.
• Demonstrated that influences can act in isolation or synergistically.
• Highlighted the interconnected nature of threats through the 'resilience web'.

Conclusions:

• Organizational resilience is affected by a complex web of interconnected influences.
• Recognizing these synergies is essential for effective anticipation, response, and recovery.
• The 'resilience web' provides a framework for in-depth analysis of organizational vulnerabilities.