Sub-theme 26: Embracing and Nurturing Imperfections for Resilient Individuals, Organizations, and Societies

Convenors:
Maria Laura Frigotto, University of Trento, Italy
Mitchell Young, Charles University, Czech Republic
Rómulo Pinheiro, University of Agder, Norway
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, D3.0.218
State of the Field, Improvision & Rules
Chair: Rómulo Pinheiro
Martina Neri, Federico Niccolini and Francesco Virili
The tip of the iceberg. From organizational to cyber resilience: state of the art and new inquiries
Discussant(s): Young et al.
Violet Petit-Steeghs, Teyler van Muijden, Hans Vollaard, Marcello Aspria, Roland Bal and Hester van de Bovenkamp
Taming wicked societal problems: Creating conditions for playfulness to enhance system resilience
Discussant(s): Lehner & Born
Mitchell Young, Maria Laura Frigotto and Rómulo Pinheiro
Unpacking the regulative dimension of social behavior: A preliminary inquiry on the interplay between rules, time, and resilience
Discussant(s): Neri
Improvisation as circular process
Rule–Time–Resilience
Playfulness and resilience (governance of care/safety)
Literature review on OR – cyber attack (vulnerabilities as strength)
State of the art and new inquiries

Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, D3.0.218
Resilient Mindsets
Chair: Laura Frigotto
Viktoriia Pisotska and Luca Giustiniano
Psychological resilience and reorganization of work in times of COVID-19
Discussant(s): Desivilya
Helena Desivilya
Negotiating distinctiveness and building resilience: Arab and Jewish women’s acts of micro-emancipation in local politics
Discussant(s): Pisotska
Eva Born and Johannes M. Lehner
Circular changes between focus on perfection versus focus on others
Discussant(s): Petit-Steeghs
Spiritual practices on career derailment
Psychlogical resilience and work re-organisation – COVID-19
Emancipation/negotiations – local politics (women managers)
Employee resilience
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, D3.0.218
Resilient, Creative Fields
Chair: Mitchell Young
Caio A. Camargo-da-Silva
Management Runway: When the pursuit of fashion perfection becomes a disorder
Discussant(s): Klein
Aleksandra Klein
Team structural control for tough cookies: An empirical study of team resilience in creative project-based teams
Discussant(s): Carmago de Silva & Meyer Jr.
Simone Napolitano, Roberta Ferrarini, Luca Zan and Paolo Ferri
Disciplining plasticity: The Ferrara Buskers Festival
Discussant(s): Frigotto
Maria Laura Frigotto
Resilience and/or sustainability? Comparing the two for the case of Opera Theatres
Discussant(s): Napolitano et al.
Festival management – dynamics of change & continuity
Management fashions vs. eating disorders (fashion models)
Resilience & sustainability – opera theaters
Team resilience & creative industries (ads agency)
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, D3.0.218
Publicness and Organizational Resilience
Chair: Mitchell Young
Sandra Hasanefendic and Davide Donina
A heuristic perspective on organizational strategizing in complex and coherent higher education fields
Discussant(s): Friedrichs & Kreutzer
Katja Friedrichs and Karin Kreutzer
How do social enterprises survive the COVID-19 crisis despite limited financial slack: A tale of learned resilience
Discussant(s): Hasanefendic & Donina
University strategising
Leadership & Resilience
Social enterprises & COVID-19
A third paper by Pinheiro & Kekale to be presented in the session
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, D3.0.218
Resilient Responses Following COVID-19
Chair: Rómulo Pinheiro
Meysam Salimi and Maria Laura Frigotto
Resilience capabilities, teamwork and firm Innovation in small and medium firms
Discussant(s): tba
Resilience of entrepreneurial and small firms
Teamwork & innovation
Responses to COVID-19
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, D3.0.218
Resilient Capacity: Tensions & Trade-Offs
Chair: Laura Frigotto
Edward Machado, Snehal Shah and Sumita Datta
Exploring the human resource mechanisms of developing organizational resilience capability
Discussant(s): Kosaka
Genjiro Kosaka
Balancing cooperation–competition tensions in supply networks to foster resilience: Evidence from the automobile industry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster
Discussant(s): Ilseven
Ekin Ilseven
Intra-organizational vicarious learning, organizational resilience and its trade-off with non-shock performance
Discussant(s): Machado
Learning-resilience-efficiency (intra-organisational/micro foundations)
Suply chain management (auto industry); coopetition; crisis response
Exploring the human resource mechanisms of developing organizational resilience capability
Tensions and Tradeoffs
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, D3.0.218
Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Chair: Mitchell Young, Laura Frigotto & Rómulo Pinheiro
Group discussion on key takes from the panel, future reseach and joint collaborations