ABSTRACT

Strongly Emergent organizational Resilience would refer to the hypothetic resilience features of an organization that cannot be explained by any combination of individual agent properties, even in principle. Although there is no evidence that such properties exist, some developments in complexity science tend to prove that they are possible, provided a sufficient level of complexity is reached, which is undoubtedly the case for living beings. Human societies and organizations exhibit an overwhelming degree of complexity, and obviously cover the whole hierarchy. As an emerging property of these complex systems, resilience should also be considered through a similar taxonomy. The complexity of an object can be expressed by the Kolmogorov measure, which is the length of the shortest algorithm capable of generating this object. In the case of weak emergence, the system dynamics are algorithmically incompressible in the Kolmogorov sense.