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Alexander Cedergren

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Enabling and impeding factors for organizational adaptive capacity – a review of the literature

Författare

  • Henrik Hassel
  • Alexander Cedergren

Redaktör

  • Maria Chiara Leva
  • Edoardo Patelli
  • Luca Podofillini
  • Simon Wilson

Summary, in English

Organizations responsible for maintaining critical societal functions must be able to handle both events that can be foreseen and events that come more or less as surprises. Therefore, proactive risk management strategies that build on capacity to adapt to new and unforeseen circumstances must complement strategies that build on the ability to plan for events that can be anticipated on beforehand. In this paper, a literature review is presented of factors that are claimed to enable or impede organizational adaptive capacity. The identified factors, which varied greatly in character, were grouped in six themes: 1) Resources 2) Organizational structure 3) Trust, 4) Diversity, 5) Experience. The identified factors can be used as a starting point for developing methods to assess adaptive capacity or how to improve adaptive capacities in organisations. At the same time, more research is needed on how these factors interrelate with each, with the goal of developing a systemic understanding of enabling and impeding factors for adaptive capacity.

Avdelning/ar

  • LTH profilområde: Livsmedel och bioteknik
  • Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

Publiceringsår

2022

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

204-211

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Proceedings of the 32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2022 - Understanding and Managing Risk and Reliability for a Sustainable Future

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

Horizon Research Publishing Corporation

Ämne

  • Information Systems

Nyckelord

  • Adaptive capacity
  • anticipation
  • critical societal functions
  • resilience

Conference name

32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2022

Conference date

2022-08-28 - 2022-09-01

Conference place

Dublin, Ireland

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9789811851834