Project overview
The team's expertise is in the areas of organisational studies and people management. They include specialists from a range of organisational sciences, including strategic management, human resources, organisational behaviour, organisational psychology, and organisational change.
Their recent work focuses on organisational responses to the major Canterbury seismic events during 2010-2011. This is a rare opportunity to explore resilience processes where organisations have to manage in an extended crisis. Projects address topics such as the human resources challenges, as well as major projects aimed at increasing the resilience of infrastructure organisations.
Key contacts
Leading and Managing Resilient Organisations Research Group
Phone +64 (0) 3 364 2987 ext 6343 / 8621
Email: ven.nilakant@canterbury.ac.nz or bernard.walker@canterbury.ac.nz
Project team
- Dr Venkataraman Nilakant, co-leader
- Dr Bernard Walker, co-leader
- Dr Rosemary Baird
- Dr Kate van Heugten
- Dr Herb de Vries
- Dr Katharina Näswall
- Dr Joana Kuntz
- Dr Sanna Malinen
Project outputs
Becoming agile: A guide to building adaptive resilience
Bernard Walker, Venkataraman Nilakant, Kate van Heugten, Joana Kuntz, Sanna Malinen, Katharina Naswall
Building adaptive resilience - High performing today, agile tomorrow, thriving in the future
Bernard Walker, Venkataraman Nilakant, Kate van Heugten, Joana Kuntz, Sanna Malinen, Katharina Naswall, Rosemary Baird, Herb de Vries
Conceptualising Adaptive Resilience using Grounded Theory
V. Nilakant, B. Walker, K. van Heugten, R. Baird and H. de Vries. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations 39(1): 79-86 (2014).
Leading in a Post-disaster Setting:Â Guidance for Human Resource Practitioners
Venkataraman Nilakant, Bernard Walker, Kylie Rochford and Kate van Heugten. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 38(1):1-14.