MOR reacts: Explorations of resilience and the status of globalization in response to the Covid pandemic
7 April 2021
Last update: 23/06/21 05:04
The Management and Organization Review (MOR) Resilience Forum
The Covid pandemic had almost instantaneously attracted attention to national, institutional, organizations and individual capabilities of resilience. The extant literature is quite sparse. MOR was early to attract explorations of resilience in response to a Black Swan type event that was anticipated but in reality the world was unprepared.
The MOR Dialogue Debate and Discussion Editorial area serves as an ideal Forum for attracting and fast track reviewing of commentaries on the capabilities of resilience. Surprisingly countries, enterprises, and institutions demonstrated resilience at every level. Whether it was educational institutions adopting virtual learning, or companies adopting work from home, or the emergence of new services such as delivery services there was an outburst of resilient activities and responses at every level of society.
This collections of commentaries and thought pieces serves as a sampling of resilience capabilities and at same time it reveals the paucity of knowledge about resilience at every level and therefore also served to unleash case descriptions of resilience as well new theorizing about the dynamics and capabilities of resilience. In a very short time the collection has attracted over 10,000 article downloads (July 2020 – February 2021) and articles continue to be cited.
You can view the full resilience forum, along with other MOR themed article collections here.
New: Forum on De-globalization and decoupling
The Forum invited commentaries that address two broad questions: (1) What are the most salient contextual forces driving the trend toward de-globalization and global decoupling (e.g., geo-political conflicts, global supply chains, reshoring and relocation of manufacturing hubs, applications of software innovations, electronic payments, platformization, and ecosystem)? and (2) How can MNEs headquartered in liberal democracies or state capitalistic systems best adapt and respond to these emerging dynamics? This first collection of commentaries features selections from the first wave of over 27 submissions. The guest editors ventured to think out of the box and to propose a co-evolutionary framework for making sense of imaginable scenarios and potential consequences. The second installment of commentaries will be published in MOR 17.2.
You can view the first collection of Forum on De-globalization and decoupling articles here.
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