A Polish application of the Business Resilience Tool

Organizational resilience as a measure and attribute of enterprise excellence.

Marcin M. Rzegocki

PhD Dissertation, Warsaw 2019

Abstract

Introduction

Organizational resilience, understood as the phenomenon of positive adaptation to change as part of the organization’s operation in the turbulent environment of the present times constitutes the subject of the research presented in this dissertation.

The concept of resilience allows us to answer the question: Which features of persons and organizations make it possible for them to thrive and demonstrate correct development trends despite difficult and turbulent internal and external conditions.  The idea of resilience has been conceptualized, i.e., as personal resilience – the ability to appropriately cope with, adapt to, and engage in everyday issues in the changing and stressful conditions of one’s life, while preserving one’s identity and life orientation. Continue reading the abstract.