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Resilient Organizations: Responsible Leadership in Times of Uncertainty
Guia Beatrice Pirotti
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Description for Resilient Organizations: Responsible Leadership in Times of Uncertainty
hardcover. This book studies the development of organizational resilience in the wake of a crisis. Num Pages: 172 pages, 20 b/w illus. 11 tables. BIC Classification: KJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 460.
Recent financial crises have shown that firms need to create more robust business models. However, it seems that the task of developing resilience - a firm's ability to adapt, endure, bounce back and then thrive, despite the shock - appears on most managers' strategic issue list only after such a shock has occurred. Managers, through responsible leadership, can make explicit choices that will enhance their firm's resilience, increasing their chances of anticipating and avoiding these shocks. This book is the result of a three-year research project across seven industries, and is aimed at improving the understanding of why some firms ... Read more
Recent financial crises have shown that firms need to create more robust business models. However, it seems that the task of developing resilience - a firm's ability to adapt, endure, bounce back and then thrive, despite the shock - appears on most managers' strategic issue list only after such a shock has occurred. Managers, through responsible leadership, can make explicit choices that will enhance their firm's resilience, increasing their chances of anticipating and avoiding these shocks. This book is the result of a three-year research project across seven industries, and is aimed at improving the understanding of why some firms ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107164666
SKU
V9781107164666
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Ref
99-20
About Guia Beatrice Pirotti
Guia Beatrice Pirotti gained her PhD in Business Administration and Management from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan and was a Visiting Scholar at Emory University, Atlanta in 2009. She teaches Business Strategy at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. Her areas of expertise include organizational resilience, strategic planning, and competitiveness of firms. Pirotti is author of Resilience (with Markus Venzin, 2014) and ... Read more
Reviews for Resilient Organizations: Responsible Leadership in Times of Uncertainty
'Pirotti and Venzin address one of the most important and perplexing questions that executives face today: why do some companies sustain high performance in a turbulent, unpredictable business environment while most cannot? Drawing upon their own research and a diversity of wider sources, the authors offer practical guidance on how to build resilient enterprises.' Robert M. Grant, Università Commerciale Luigi ... Read more