How to make an enterprise resilient: Methodological questions and evidence from the past

Abstract

It is quite common sense in the scientific community working on resilience that the asset of the term ‘resilience’ lies in its multidisciplinarity as well as in the difficulties to define it so that it at least provokes dialogue and communication between scientific disciplines. In contrast to some ‘official’ definitions of ‘resilience’, there does not exist - as far as the author can see - an official or generally accepted definition of the term ‘resilience management’ in the current scientific literature. But for some years the term has been used ever more often both by Anglophone and German-speaking expert groups (Wink 2016a; Kluge 2004; Günther et al. 2009; Günther 2009).