ABSTRACT
An organization’s resilience capacity captures its ability to take situation-specific, robust, and transformative actions when confronted with unexpected and powerful events that have the potential to jeopardize an organization’s long-term survival. Strategic agility is a complex, varied construct that can take multiple forms but captures an organization’s ability to develop and quickly apply flexible, nimble, and dynamic capabilities. These organizational attributes share common roots and are built from complementary resources, skills, and competencies. Together, strategic agility and resilience capacity enable firms to prepare for changing conditions, restore their vitality after traumatic jolts, and become even more proficient as a result of the experience. Resilience capacity helps firms navigate among different forms of strategic agility and respond effectively to changing conditions. In this chapter, we explain why organizational resilience capacity can be viewed as an antecedent to strategic agility, and as a moderator of the relationship between a firm’s dynamic activities and subsequent performance.
