The current paper presents a new measure of trait resilience derived from three common mechanisms identified in ecological theory: Engineering, Ecological and Adaptive (EEA) resilience. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of five existing resilience scales suggest that the three trait resilience facets emerge, and can be reduced to a 12-item scale. The conceptualization and value of EE...

Resilience means different things in different disciplines. From a systems engineering perspective, we define resilience as the ability of a system to adapt affordably and perform effectively across a wide range of operational contexts, where context is defined by mission, environment, threat, and force disposition. A key issue in engineering resilient systems is the lengthy and costly upfront ...

Purpose Businesses are always seeking resilient strategies so they can weather unpredictable competitive environments. One source of unpredictability is the unsustainability of commerce’s environmental, economic or social impacts and the limitations this places on businesses. Another is poor resilience causing erroneous and unexpected outputs. Companies prospering long-term must have both resil...

Many social infrastructures fail in an unexpected way, and thus it is important to make a system resilient such that it can recover from various damages in a dynamic and flexible way. In this paper, we summarize major research results on systems resilience in the literature and present future research challenges crucial to establish a solid foundation of resilience engineering.

The realization of a resilience based research action project requires the elaboration of different models dedicated to the description of the organization studied, to the ideal functioning whishes, to the logic of evolution that have to be create. The objective of this paper is to present a modeling framework dedicated to the study of social organization and it’s application to the resilience ...