ARTÍCULO
TITULO

Managing Uncertainty: Company?s Adaptive Capabilities during Covid-19

Iva Atanassova    
Peter Bednar    

Resumen

The concept of organizational learning receives increasing attention and recognition in recent years as a critical enabler of organizational adaptation, survival, and growth during uncertain times. Our study applies a sociotechnical lens to shed light on the organizational learning processes taking place in 40 various sizes and kinds of UK businesses during the critical, volatile, and unprecedented period ? February?May 2021. The study identifies learning antecedents and key organizational context enabling and/or impeding learning processes and follow-up evolution within the studied companies. Our research confirms that in an uncertain environment, companies need to develop and apply ad-hoc learning and quick adaptation practices which are critical for survival and growth, and not standard management practices. The findings suggest, however, that even if employees have capability, not all are able to capture and transform intelligence into learning and apply it at a strategic level, reconfiguring purposefully future operational capabilities to respond to environmental changes, as they are not empowered and supported by the organizational management.

 Artículos similares

       
 
Hamid Mcheick and John Sayegh    
The emergence of pervasive computing technology has revolutionized all aspects of life and facilitated many everyday tasks. As the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to find new ways to use technology to fight diseases and reduce thei... ver más
Revista: Informatics

 
Christian Krupitzer, Benedikt Eberhardinger, Ilias Gerostathopoulos and Claudia Raibulet    
The joint 1st Workshop on Evaluations and Measurements in Self-Aware Computing Systems (EMSAC 2019) and Workshop on Self-Aware Computing (SeAC) was held as part of the FAS* conference alliance in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on... ver más
Revista: Computers

 
Yuanlong Cao, Mario Collotta, Siyi Xu, Longjun Huang, Xueqiang Tao and Zhichao Zhou    
With the large scale deployment of multihomed mobile computing devices in today?s Internet, the Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is being considered as a preferred data transmission technology in the future Internet due to its promising features of bandwidth aggreg... ver más
Revista: Applied Sciences

 
Rick Kool, Judy Lawrence, Martin Drews and Robert Bell    
Sea-level rise increasingly affects low-lying and exposed coastal communities due to climate change. These communities rely upon the delivery of stormwater and wastewater services which are often co-located underground in coastal areas. Due to sea-level ... ver más
Revista: Infrastructures

 
Sergey Kiyko     Pág. 56 - 70
Today, the problem of creating and implementing methodological foundations for managing portfolios of energy saving projects at metallurgical enterprises is urgent, taking into account strategic goals, limited resources and risks. The solution to this pr... ver más