Development of Enterprise Resilience Framework (ERF)

The ERF has been developed around four areas: Resilience, Complexity, Strategy, and ERM, the first two being particularly important to this book. Enterprise Resilience is explored through the lens of Complexity Theory, to show how organizations can apply a holistic view—Complexity Thinking—to its ERM processes. The author’s research is concentrated in two strands. The first, a theoretical background to the four areas listed above, identifies the data sources other researchers have used and exposes the remaining gaps in the body of knowledge. The author’s aim is to show how Effective Emergent Strategies are characterized by Resilience, which in turn is concerned with Emergence—a characteristic of Complexity—and to illustrate how Complexity Thinking might be embedded into ERM processes. The second strand is an empirical study covering the exploration of Enterprise Resilience in practice, taking into consideration both the top-down and bottom-up management perspectives.