Resilience Tactics Research Articles

Supply chain resilience in the face of global disruptions: A comparative study between the US and the UK

The United States and the United Kingdom are major players in the global economy. When disruptive occurrences occur, the supply chains of the two countries are affected adversely, and the effect is felt by business organizations in the countries. Over the recent years, the world has suffered from major economic disruptions including the COVID-19 and the Ukraine war. This research was aimed at examining the supply chain resilience tactics in both the United States and the United Kingdom, with a key focus on comprehending the resilience of enterprises in the countries and the governments. The main objective of the research was to analyse and evaluate the level of supply chain resilience in the countries with focus on supply network ecosystems. The study utilised mixed method approach to collect data from 20-30 participants. Semi-structured interviews, case studies, and surveys were all used to collect data that was analysed to answer the questions of the research. Findings indicated that both nations emphasised the need for diversification and risk assessment for risk resilience. Also, the study indicated that culture and leadership had a big impact on the United Kingdom, while the technical aspect had a big impact on United States. The study recommends development of robust supplier relationships, utilisation of digital systems, and promotion of leadership and organisational culture.

Assessing economic resilience in aviation system disruptions based on CGE model

This study employs a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the economic resilience of Shanghai's aviation system disruption caused by Typhoon Lekima. The research integrates advanced modules for disaster shock and economic resilience, providing a comprehensive framework to evaluate economic resilience tactics and their effectiveness. Specially, the disaster shock module is designed to account for perturbations in both commodity flow and passenger flow, and the economic resilience module incorporates both inherent and adaptive resilience tactics. The results show the following. First, Typhoon Lekima significantly impacted Shanghai's aviation system, resulting in substantial GDP losses of 0.52 %, decreased government revenue by 0.29 %, and reduced total investment in the base scenario. Second, the implementation of resilience tactics, both inherent and adaptive, mitigated these losses. Inherent resilience reduced potential GDP losses by 0.29 % in the Shanghai region. Adaptive resilience tactics, such as flight rescheduling, flight diversion, and effective management processes, though initially suppressing GDP due to resource reallocation towards recovery efforts, ultimately enhanced the system's overall resilience. Third, traffic disruptions have a significant hindering effect on regional trade activities, especially in the regional output and value added. The industries most sensitive to traffic disruptions were transportation, storage, and postal service, and wholesale and retail trade. These findings provide valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders in the aviation industry, highlighting the necessity of resilience tactics to mitigate the economic impacts of future disruptions.

Islamic Pedagogy Resilience: Exploring Strategies for Social Character Development Beyond the Pandemic

This empirical study examines the resilience tactics utilized in Islamic pedagogy to foster the growth of social character qualities in spite of the difficulties presented by the Covid-19 epidemic. The research is centered around SMA Negeri 7 Yogyakarta and seeks to uncover the creative methods employed by Islamic Education instructors in fostering students' social traits both during and after the pandemic. The study employed qualitative research methods such as observation, interviews, and recording. The participants included school administrators, student assistants, Grade 12 Islamic Education teachers, and two students from SMA Negeri 7 Yogyakarta. This study examines the diverse approaches utilized by Islamic Education instructors, specifically in response to the pandemic's influence on students' social growth. The findings suggest that Grade 12 Islamic Education teachers overcome these problems by employing resilient tactics, including the use of role models, offering mentorship, and fostering interactive and socially conscious learning settings. The report also emphasizes the prospects and difficulties faced by educators in this endeavor, such as cultivating connections with kids from various backgrounds, inculcating ethical and moral comprehension, and actively engaging parents in the journey of character development. This research enhances the overall comprehension of Islamic pedagogy resilience and its impact on the development of social character beyond the pandemic. It highlights the crucial role educators play in molding students' characters in the changing educational environment.

Economic Preneur's Innovative Strategy in Facing the Economic Crisis

The global economic crisis has placed significant pressure on Economic Preneurs, compelling them to adopt innovative strategies to sustain their businesses amidst challenges. This research delves into the myriad of innovative strategies employed by Economic Preneurs to effectively navigate economic downturns. Utilizing a qualitative research methodology, the study conducts in-depth interviews with fifty Economic Preneurs spanning various industries. The findings shed light on the effectiveness of several strategies, including digital transformation, diversification of service offerings, and a heightened emphasis on customer value optimization. Through these strategies, Economic Preneurs strive to adapt to changing market conditions and customer preferences, ensuring the resilience and viability of their enterprises. Ultimately, it is observed that Economic Preneurs who demonstrate agility and innovation in response to economic challenges are more likely to not only weather financial adversities but also thrive and expand their enterprises. This study contributes to the existing body of literature by offering empirical evidence on resilience tactics utilized during economic crises and provides practical insights for business leaders and policymakers. These insights can inform the creation of conducive environments that foster entrepreneurial innovation and promote economic sustainability in the face of adversity.

Exploitation, exploration and ambidextrous strategies of SMES in accelerating organisational effectiveness

PurposeThis study aims to analyse the resilience strategy utilized by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), enabling these businesses to effectively adapt their operations in response to varying conditions by providing them with essential resources. SMEs operate in marketplaces that are both dynamic and frequently tumultuous. These markets provide SMEs with a variety of obstacles, including economic ups and downs, advances in technology, evolving customer tastes and new regulatory requirements. SMEs need to create a strategic strategy to survive and grow in such situations. This strategy ought to help strengthen their resiliency and make it possible for them to make the most of emerging opportunities while simultaneously lowering the dangers.Design/methodology/approachThe questionnaires adopted and adapted from previous research served as the basis for gathering the data. The manufacturing industry was polled through the use of questionnaires. To test the hypothesis, the data were analysed using Smart PLS. Through the use of closed-ended questions directed to the proprietors, managers or senior executives of SMEs, data were collected from each and every institution in the sample. Following the examination of the data by means of descriptive analysis and the presentation of several scenarios using information relating to SMEs, the findings were presented.FindingsThe ambidextrous strategies that are used by SMEs have a propensity to offer a constructive contribution to SMEs. In this study, it was discovered that ambidexterity, which is defined as the capacity to both seek and capitalise on possibilities, has a significant bearing on the organisational effectiveness of SMEs. The results showed that ambidextrous strategies have a propensity to work as mediators in interactions involving proactive resilience tactics and performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe research expands our understanding of how SMEs in the manufacturing sector may improve their performance by concentrating on growing their ambidextrous strategies.Practical implicationsThis study provides a plausible explanation of two crucial management mechanisms for enhancing the sustainability of organisational effectiveness. The relationships between ambidextrous capabilities and firm effectiveness are malleable, and this study suggests that nurturing formal and informal relationships may be the key to SMEs' long-term sustainable performance. Improving the knowledge and performance of supply chain systems for SMEs in the manufacturing sector and boosting their competitiveness in domestic and international markets are the practical contributions of this study.Social implicationsOur comprehension of monitoring, cooperation and innovation within social management was deepened as a result of these facts. In addition, the study conducted in the sector uncovered four essential connections that outline how managers should actively work towards lowering social risks, developing new possibilities and increasing business performance. These capacities and links, when taken as a whole, provide the foundation upon which an integrated framework and five research propositions are built.Originality/valueThis research offers a convincing explanation of fundamental management processes for enhancing the sustainability of organisational effectiveness. This research implies that developing formal and informal interactions may be the key to the sustainable performance of SMEs over the long run. The relationships between ambidextrous capabilities, methods and organisational effectiveness are flexible, and this study also suggests that these relationships may be shaped. The practical contributions made by this research include boosting the understanding and performance of supply chain systems for SMEs as well as the competitive power of these businesses in both local and international markets.

Tourism SMEs’ resilience strategies amidst the COVID-19 crisis: the story of survival

ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), play a crucial role in the economy of every destination, particularly in developing countries. However, due to their size, limited resources, cash flow, and restricted access to risk-management tools, SMEs are often significantly impacted by crises. Therefore, gaining a deeper understanding of the resilience strategies they employ during and after a crisis is of paramount significance. The purpose of this study is to identify the resilience strategies utilized by tourism SMEs amidst the COVID-19 crisis in a developing country, Iran. Qualitative data was collected through interviews with tourism SME owners and managers in two phases, conducted in 2020 and 2022. This primary data was supplemented by secondary data collected during the same period. The findings of this study highlight the disproportionate impact of global crises on tourism SMEs in Iran, exacerbating the negative consequences of the country's sanctions-ravaged economy. Through offering insights into the resilience tactics adopted by SMEs, this study aims to provide both theoretical and practical contributions.

The emerging of business resilience plans (BRPs) in dealing with business turbulence

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to provide a strategic framework for business resilience plans (BRPs) to guide micro, small, and medium-sized firms (MSMEs) in determining their adaptability level and providing information on agility and resilience tactics while coping with turbulence.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review (SLR) is used in this work to collect and acquire a complete and high-quality sample of academic journal articles. As the primary focus, 63 high-quality journals were chosen from 154 academic papers in the Scopus and Web of Science databases by using qualitative data analysis. The method of thematic analysis incorporating grounded approach analysis was utilized for creating themes and key findings in this study.FindingsThis study proposes the dimensions of the BRPs framework along with key findings to identify future research directions for MSMEs. The three dimensions of BRP include responsiveness, reactiveness, and proactiveness based on the principles of agility, absorption, and resilience.Originality/valueThis study proposes a sustainable and resilient framework for post-disaster MSMEs as a catalyst towards sustainably resilient MSMEs. This study highlights viable avenues for future research for academics and provides a resilient plan at various levels for business owner-managers.

Cyber Protection of Hotel Brands

Topicality. The hotel industry suffered significant financial shifts during pandemic, which have been exacerbated by the martial law in Ukraine. The problem of protecting intangible assets has become relevant, in particular, in conditions that some blighty hotels have Russian beneficiaries, and certain international brands have remained their activity in Russia, which unleashed a full-scale war in Ukraine. In addition to physical destruction, hotels have also become the subject of information war and cybercrimes. Therefore, the issue of brands cyber protection has become an important component of the development strategy, over and above, in digitalisation sphere. The topicality of this research lies in cyber threats identification, as well as determination of the main aspects of protection against them. All this mentioned above is based on scientific positions and practical reviews.
 The aim of the study and its methods. The aim of the article is to research the essence of brands cyber protection, and found the mechanism of its provision. Interpreted for the research, the scientific topic has determined the use of general scientific and special methods, which made it possible to define operational definitions, and build a hypothetical study apparatus. Thus, the methods of analysis, synthesis and induction have beed used in order to formulate theoretical approaches. A horizon scanning method has been applied to assess cyber threats and the potential impact of digital innovations on cyber defence capabilities. In turn, modelling has been used for creating a hotel brand cyber defence referent model. In the process of forming a visual scenario of foresight of hotel brands cyber protection in the aspect of digital technologies development, the technological road map method has been applied. It is based on apriori plots and points of critical decisions.
 Results. The definition of “cyber protection” has been worked out, its main elements have been determined. The emphasis has been placed on digital communications as key drivers of the sales system, which provoke risks for the hotel brand security. In dynamics, the parameters of hotel brands operating in Ukraine have been evaluated. The sources of support for hotel brands at formal and informal levels of communications, which ensure the hotel brand cyber security, have been characterised. The key problems of ensuring brands cyber protection in Ukraine have been considered. In particular, insufficient attention to risk management, which causes financial and reputational losses, as well as stoppages of hotel business processes, has been highlighted. Directions for increasing the level of cyber protection based on the use of cyber resilience tactics, oriented on brand carriers and cyber risk categories, have been offered, as well as measures in management of informal communication channels. Prospects for further research are the effectiveness evaluation of cyber protection management of hotel business entities on the background of the growth of cyber-attacks and cyber threats in Ukrainian digital space.
 Conclusions and discussion. The conducted research demonstrates the relevance of scientific studies of the issue of hotel brand cyber protection, as it allows to study and scientifically substantiate the directions of creating strategic outposts, which is a necessary condition for maintaining consumer loyalty, and preventing financial and reputational losses for hotel business entities, additionally, avoiding bankruptcy. Used in this research, scientific works confirm the importance of brand protection in the digital space, which is an element of hotel economic security.

Socioeconomic impacts of resilience to seaport and highway transportation network disruption

• An integrated transportation-socioeconomic impact model is developed and applied. • Aggregate and distributional impacts of port-transportation disruptions are simulated. • Resilience tactics can substantially reduce potential GDP losses. • Losses from port disruptions increase income inequality . • Port resilience tactics reduce inequality from port disruptions. An integrated transportation-socioeconomic model is developed to analyze the economic consequences of and resilience to seaport and associated transportation network disruptions. Since such disruptions can affect people in a region unequally, the model is constructed to analyze both aggregate economic impacts and impacts across socioeconomic groups. We illustrate the model’s usefulness in a simulated earthquake scenario affecting the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Total GDP losses from port disruptions, highway transportation cost increases, and general building damages, working through regional and interregional supply-chains, are estimated at $24.2 billion in the Port Region and $30.2 billion in the U.S. as a whole. A combination of several resilience tactics is estimated to reduce GDP impacts by 41.3% in LA and 57.6% in the U.S. The distributional analysis indicates the extent to which lower-to-middle-income groups are more proportionally impacted by port disruptions and middle-to-higher-income groups are more impacted by building damages.

Bouncing back or bouncing forward? Tourism destinations’ crisis resilience and crisis management tactics

In recent years, the tourism literature has demonstrated a growing interest in the concept of resilience and its implications for travel and tourism. However, the research of resilience in tourism is still in its early stages and there are many challenges ahead. In response to these challenges, the current study examines how tourism destinations are practising recovery and resilience in the face of crisis, using case study analysis of global destinations overcoming a crisis: France, Turkey, Russia, Korea, Belgium and Egypt. The results of the study indicate the use of both crisis management practices and tourism resilience tactics by these destinations. Taking the perspective of the resilience theory, the findings of the study demonstrate that, following a crisis, destinations will focus on re-orienting the tourism system and regenerating tourism growth. These responses include investment in infrastructure and facilities, product development, market development and conduct structural reforms. The outcomes of the study contribute to the understanding of resilience tactics and its practices by global destinations, and shed a new light on the relations between tourism destinations, tourism crisis and tourism resilience.

The cost-effectiveness of economic resilience

Society is increasingly focused on resilience to catastrophic events. Firms generally observe two forms of economic disruption, property damage and business interruption (BI). In contrast to pre-event mitigation intended primarily to avoid property damage, firms can use a variety of resilience tactics once the disaster strikes to reduce BI losses by improving stability and continuity of operations. This paper makes a theoretical contribution by incorporating resilience into longstanding economic production theory and by identifying the key components for evaluating the cost and effectiveness of resilience. It also makes important empirical contributions by designing, administering, and analyzing surveys of firms affected by two of the most devastating disasters in US history. This paper is the first to econometrically analyze these production theory relationships, identifying the cost-effectiveness of a full range of explicit resilience tactics. Results show that BI losses exceeded property damage losses by over 900% and, on average, firms avoided $4.57 in BI for every dollar spent on resilience. Generalizable comparative static estimates are presented for the manufacturing sector to test formalized relationships, which identify that tactics capable of improving factor productivity can significantly enhance the cost-effectiveness of resilience.

An Integrated Risk and Resilience Assessment of Sea Ice Disasters on Port Operation.

Risk and resilience assessment of disasters plays a critical role in decision making for emergency response and postdisaster recovery. Yet, there is still a lack of modeling framework that could capture the effectiveness of economic resilience under uncertain disaster conditions. The objective of this study is to develop a novel integrated framework that is able to help decisionmakers understand the effectiveness of resilience performance under various risk conditions. Using hazard data of the Bohai Sea and throughput data of the Port of Yingkou (China) as an example, the copula-modeling method was adopted for the risk assessment of sea ice disasters on seaport operations. This study shows that the Gumbel Copula method, with consideration of ice thickness level and area of ice cover, provides the most robust risk assessment outcome. In addition, a grid chart system with an overlap of a joint return period and port throughput change provides a straightforward understanding of resilience performance under different risk levels. In particular, economic resilience tactics, such as production recapture and effective management, were confirmed to be effective resilience strategies, especially when a risk level is high, as port operational losses can be avoided up to 86.8%. Overall, the study provides insights that could help stakeholders improve the effectiveness of disaster risk management through an improved understanding of the linkage between risk and resilience.

Resource Sharing: An Empirical Analysis of Firms’ Resilience Through Resource Dependence Theory

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), around 40% of small businesses never reopen following a disaster and around 90% of firms that do reopen, fail within a year unless they can resume operations within 5 days. Nonetheless, firms can hasten their recovery and increase their survival chances by implementing resilience actions or tactics after a disaster begins. Given that business interruption losses are usually not eligible for public assistance programs, the type of action to be implemented is a strategic decision and will likely depend on some particularities of each business and the market in which it operates. This paper examines one of these resilience tactics – resource sharing – from the perspective of Resource Dependence Theory. By using a unique dataset collected from responses of businesses affected by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Harvey and by specifying a sample selection model, this study provides novel conclusions indicating that there is unobserved heterogeneity that explains the strategic decision-making of firms in the post-disaster and that those firms that are more likely to resource share are also the ones that exhibit higher economic resilience. Implications of these findings, complications and future research are discussed.

Evaluating the role of resilience in reducing economic losses from disasters: A multi‐regional analysis of a seaport disruption

AbstractModels to estimate economic impacts of disasters have recently been augmented to include resilience. However, most research has incorporated only a limited set of resilience tactics and has not estimated their individual loss reduction effect. We present a comprehensive framework for estimating the relative effects of a broad set of post‐disaster resilience tactics. Our methodological innovation is illustrated by adapting the TERM multi‐regional CGE model for a seaport disruption, distinguishing inherent resilience working through the price system from adaptive resilience and other inherent tactics to cope with input shortages. We also overcome a path‐dependency problem in the modelling process.

Digital Resilience Tactics of Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands: Social Media for Social Support, Health, and Identity

The process of adjusting to a new country may carry important stressors for refugees. In the light of neoliberal policies, refugees are expected to become resilient in a local arrival infrastructure and perform a specific subjectivity based on gratefulness, adaptability, and digital sensitivity to successfully integrate. Drawing on a qualitative, in-depth case study with Syrians living in the Netherlands, this article explores the impact of the retreat of the welfare state and unfolding digital transitions on resilience tactics of marginalized people like refugees. While recognizing the systemic violence and historic trauma many refugees have experienced, we focus on how refugees are expected to and develop ways to become resilient. Three digital resilience tactics are discussed: digital social support, digital health, and digital identities. Social support was mainly sought from family, friends, organizations, and social media platforms, whereas refugees’ engagement in meaningful digital practices aimed at fostering health promotion and identity management. Our fieldwork resurfaces paradoxes of digital resilience as described by careful emotional digital labor refugees engage in when communicating with families, the role of socio-cultural factors in shaping refugees’ ICT (information and communication technology) adoption and use for health support, and negotiation of different and conflicting identity axes online. Finally, our study provides some insights into the implementation of more effective online and offline practices in the context of social and health support by host countries.

Understanding waiting and wellbeing through liminal experiences of Syrian refugees

Using the anthropological concept of liminality, this paper describes an ethnographic study examining the wellbeing of Syrian refugees as they recount narratives of forced displacement and resettlement. The author observed 37 Syrian participants who had been relocated to Austin, Texas, United States, and interviewed 15 Syrian participants about their migration experiences. Through observation, interviews, and field notes, the author examines the refugees’ ideas of wellbeing during periods of peace, war and displacement, and resettlement. Throughout the displacement journey, Syrian refugees implemented resilience tactics to escape instances of waiting in order to reach their desired destination—resettlement.

Beyond the unemployment condition: Creative resilience tactics among the long term unemployed.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), the landscape of work has changed across the world, with labour markets now characterized by an increase in long-term unemployment, underemployment and...

Economic resilience of the firm: A production theory approach

As a result of catastrophic events, firms and other organizations are faced with input shortages and price shocks. Firms can respond to these events using a variety of “resilience” actions, or tactics. Here we provide a microeconomic foundation for analyzing a comprehensive range of these tactics, incorporating both inherent and adaptive concepts of resilience. We classify these tactics and derive optimality conditions for production with the use of each class of resilience in the context of a nested Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) function consisting of aggregated Capital (K), Labor (L), Infrastructure (I), and Materials (M). The framework has broad applicability, including measurement and scoring of resilience, cost-effectiveness assessment of resilience tactics individually and as a group, calculation of resilience indices, and supply-chain management.

Economic consequences of and resilience to a disruption of petroleum trade: The role of seaports in U.S. energy security

Despite increased domestic production, the U.S. is still importing more than one-third of its crude oil needs, the vast majority via ocean tankers. At the same time, there are increasing concerns about the vulnerability of ports and terminals to man-made and natural disasters. This paper advances a methodology for estimating the total economic consequences of and resilience to a disruption of crude oil and refined petroleum product trade at a major seaport. The methodology is able to estimate not only the direct impacts of such disruptions but also the supply-chain effects. It also estimates the effects of muting the impacts by various resilience tactics such as ship re-routing, drawing inventories from storage, accessing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, geographic shifting of petroleum refining, and production rescheduling. We apply the methodology to a 90-day disruption of petroleum trade at the twin seaports of Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas. The results indicate that port region and national economic activity could decline by billions of dollars, but that resilience can reduce these consequences significantly. We also conclude that factors associated with the recent surge in the extraction of shale and tight oil resources has significantly enhanced the potential effectiveness of some resilience tactics.

Resilience to a Cyber-Attack on the Automobile Industry: A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

The overall objective of this research is to improve risk management for cyber-threats among both private and public sectors through better understanding of the economic consequence of cyber-attacks and the benefits of various cyber resilience tactics in reducing these consequences. This is carried out in 3 stages: 1) estimation of direct effectiveness and costs of post-attack cyber resilience tactics; 2) adaptation of a state-of-the-art economic impact modeling approach to estimate cyber-attack consequences and resilience potential at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels; and 3) an empirical assessment of cyber-resilience in the U.S. Automobile Industry using the economic model to provide insights for decision makers to enhance resilience to cyber-attacks.