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1st Edition

Organizational Resilience and Uncertainty Strategies for Adapting, Innovating, and Thriving

Edited By Samson O. Oladejo, David A. Boye, Jayakumar Chinnasamy, Oluwabunmi O. Adejumo Copyright 2027

258 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This book advances a unifying argument that resilience is not a fixed trait, sector-specific response, or technical solution, but a dynamic, context-sensitive capability that emerges through strategy, learning, institutions, and social relations. Across its fourteen chapters, the book brings together diverse empirical settings and theoretical lenses to show how resilience is constructed and... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Samson O Oladejo

SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL NARRATIVES

2. Organisational Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Max Dike, Elizabeth Rose and Judith Ejiofor

3. The Knowledge-Innovation-Resilience Nexus

Abiodun Egbetokun and Ngozi Ojo

4. Entrepreneurship, Conflict, and Resilience: Framework to a Volatile and Restrictive Business Environment

Oluwabunmi Adejumo

SECTION II: EMPIRICAL CASES IN INDUSTRY

5. Enhancing performance-driven resilience of rice value chain actors through innovations adoption in Cameroon

Gaston Ngochembo

6. Resilient Utilisation of Crowdsourcing for Innovation: The Process, Enablers and Barriers

David Boye

7. The Impact of Foreign Aid on Democratic Governance and Organizational Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Andrews Darko, Bernard Frimpong Bannor, Deji Olagboye, and Akuoku Prince

8. Entrepreneurship and resilience: How informal entrepreneurs leverage social capital for survival in developing economies

Deji Olagboye, Navid Nasirpourosgoei, and Andrews Darko

9. Building Strategic Cyber Resilience through PRAP Framework

Adedoyin Afolabi and Samson Oladejo

SECTION III: EMPIRICAL CASES IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE THIRD SECTOR

10. Resilience and Internationalisation in Higher Education: Overcoming Barriers to Global Engagement in Scottish Higher Education

Jayakumar Chinnasamy

11. Navigating Unemployment: The Role of Self-Directed Learning in Graduate Entrepreneurship

Mojola Oluwa Alabi and Agnes Osarrh Idam

12. Entrepreneurial Resilience in the Third Sector in South-West Region of England: Strategies for Innovation and Achieving Sustainable Impact

Emre Arslan

SECTION IV: MESO AND MESO CASES

13. Achieving resilience through soft system methodology in municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in Lagos Nigeria

Chinedu Dibia, Sylvester Aighobahi and Hom Dhakal

14. Entrepreneurship in the Risk Society: Resilience, Vulnerability, and Youth Agency in Sub-Saharan Africa

Samson Oladejo, Mafimisebi Oluwasoye and Ogunmokun Olapeju

15. Financial Development and Entrepreneurship at the Macro Level in Africa

Ekwekere Eruvie

16. Conclusion and Summary of the chapters

David A Boye

Editor(s)

Biography

Samson O. Oladejo is a Lecturer in Business Management and Deputy Programme Leader for MSc International Business Suite at the School of Leadership, Management, and Marketing, Leicester Castle Business School within the Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University, UK.

David A. Boye is a Lecturer in Business Management and a Fellow in higher education specializing in Innovation Management, Digital Innovation, Crowdsourcing, and Financial Technologies at De Montfort University, UK.

Jayakumar Chinnasamy is a Lecturer in Education at the School of Education and Social Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Oluwabunmi O. Adejumo is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Development Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

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