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Download fileEstablishing the resilient response of organisations to disruptions: an exploration of organisational resilience
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posted on 2013-06-13, 09:01 authored by Kevin J. BurnardThe focus of this thesis is to investigate resilience at an organisational level. The
research aims to identify and establish the features of resilience within the response of
an organisation to disruptive and crisis events. Natural disasters, pandemic disease,
terrorist attacks, economic recession, equipment failure and human error can all pose
both a potentially unpredictable and severe threat to the continuity of an
organisation’s operations. As a result, disruptive events highlight the need to develop
robust and resilient organisational and infrastructural systems capable of adapting
and overcoming complex disruptive events. [Continues.]
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- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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© Kevin John BurnardPublication date
2013Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.Language
- en