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Designing sustainably agile and resilient organizations

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  • Linda Holbeche

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This article proposes that so powerful are the various forces for change in the business environment, in particular technological advances, that organizations must develop their adaptive capability—or agility—if they are to survive and thrive. An agile organization is one that can intelligently and proactively seize opportunities and react to threats and make timely, effective, sustainable changes that generate competitive advantage and give them some leverage in the marketplace or in their ecosystem. Yet scaling up for agility remains difficult, not least because the quest for agility calls into question organizational paradigms of various kinds—strategy, change management, the nature of leadership, and organizational design. The author provides a practitioner perspective on both the difficulties and the possibilities of developing organizational agility and proposes an adaptive approach to organization design and development that may offer a way forward for organizations wishing to become more agile.

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  • Linda Holbeche, 2019. "Designing sustainably agile and resilient organizations," Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(5), pages 668-677, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:srbeha:v:36:y:2019:i:5:p:668-677
    DOI: 10.1002/sres.2624
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    1. Škare, Marinko & Soriano, Domingo Riberio, 2021. "A dynamic panel study on digitalization and firm's agility: What drives agility in advanced economies 2009–2018," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    2. Chouaibi, Salim & Festa, Giuseppe & Quaglia, Roberto & Rossi, Matteo, 2022. "The risky impact of digital transformation on organizational performance – evidence from Tunisia," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 178(C).
    3. Eilers, Karen & Peters, Christoph & Leimeister, Jan Marco, 2022. "Why the agile mindset matters," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    4. Katja Crnogaj & Polona Tominc & Maja Rožman, 2022. "A Conceptual Model of Developing an Agile Work Environment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-18, November.
    5. David Giauque & Frédéric Cornu & Karine Renard & Yves Emery, 2023. "Opportunity to Use New Ways of Working: Do Sectors and Organizational Characteristics Shape Employee Perceptions?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-21, July.

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