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Strategic Resource Planning and Decision-Making for Organization Resilience

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 6862

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Aimee L. Franklin

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Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Interests: public budgeting; finance; financial management; stakeholder engagement
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Dr. Ani Ter-Mkrtchyan

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Department of Government, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
Interests: accountability and nonprofit governance; strategic management; environmental and energy policy and administration

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Across the globe, the pandemic, anthropogenic climate change, political regime conflicts, and looming economic crises now, more than ever, underscore the importance of strategic resource planning for organizational resilience. Strategic decision-making for resilience in public, private and nonprofit organizations is critical for resource planning for global sustainable development in all sectors of the economy. There is extensive literature about strategic resource planning in private organizations and sustainable development; however, these topics are disparately studied in the context of public and nonprofit organizations. As this title suggests, “Strategic Resource Planning and Decision-Making for Organizational Resilience,” the purpose of this Special Issue in Sustainability is to address these topics collectively. This Special Issue seeks to supplement existing research by generating knowledge on these research questions:

  • What roles do resource planning and strategic decision-making play in organizational resilience for global sustainability?
  • What tools or strategies for resource planning and strategic decision-making are used in public or nonprofit organizations in times of crisis?
  • How can organizations achieve organizational resilience and sustainable development when faced with external environment disruptions?
  • How do public policies governing various sectors of the economy affect anorganization’s ability for strategic resource planning?
  • What is the role and impact of external political factors on organizations’ sustainable management practices? What role do other external stakeholders play in these?
  • How can internal organizational management, i.e., financial resource planning, risk management, and project operations, efficiently address the external disruptions?
  • To what extent are social justice and equity issues pursued within a resilient (orsustainable) development paradigm.

While the Special Issue seeks to generate original research articles, it may include a research note, a policy commentary, or an interview in exceptional cases.

Prof. Dr. Aimee L. Franklin
Dr. Ani Ter-Mkrtchyan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • resource planning
  • strategic decision making
  • resilience
  • sustainability in organizations

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Stakeholder Analysis in the Context of Natural Disaster Mitigation: The Case of Flooding in Three U.S. Cities
by Ani V. Ter-Mkrtchyan and Aimee L. Franklin
Sustainability 2023, 15(20), 14945; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014945 - 17 Oct 2023
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This research identifies ways community dialogue can inform natural disaster mitigation planning. We use stakeholder analysis to explore indirect public engagement related to flooding in three U.S. cities (Tulsa, OK; Fayetteville, AR; and Waco, TX). Using publicly available data, we identify the types [...] Read more.
This research identifies ways community dialogue can inform natural disaster mitigation planning. We use stakeholder analysis to explore indirect public engagement related to flooding in three U.S. cities (Tulsa, OK; Fayetteville, AR; and Waco, TX). Using publicly available data, we identify the types of stakeholders and potential motivating factors leading them to contribute to community discourse. We find a wide range of engaged stakeholders representing governments, organizations, groups, and individuals directly and indirectly impacted by a natural disaster. These results provide information valuable for tailoring direct engagement efforts to reach residents not participating in the discussion, especially those with elevated vulnerabilities or untapped resources who can co-produce flood mitigation strategies designed to make their property and public infrastructure more flood-resilient and improve community sustainability. Full article
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Navigating Turbulent Environments: Exploring Resilience in SMEs through Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
by Balkiz Yapicioglu
Sustainability 2023, 15(11), 9118; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15119118 - 5 Jun 2023
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This study seeks to explore how owner–managers of small and medium-sized enterprises navigate a constantly changing and turbulent environment following a traumatic experience and how they build resilience in their organizations by drawing upon memories through a complex adaptive system lens. Specifically, this [...] Read more.
This study seeks to explore how owner–managers of small and medium-sized enterprises navigate a constantly changing and turbulent environment following a traumatic experience and how they build resilience in their organizations by drawing upon memories through a complex adaptive system lens. Specifically, this study investigates the major factors shaping the management strategies of SMEs operating in the infrastructure construction sector in North Cyprus, where foreign aid/the patron country is the primary source of financing and therefore the major driver of strategies. To gather primary data, semistructured interviews were conducted with owner–managers of grade 1 construction SMEs, who can participate in internationally financed public projects. A qualitative approach using thematic analysis was adopted, and findings indicate that the most influential factor shaping the management strategies of SMEs in North Cyprus is the macro characteristics of the sociopolitical environment. These characteristics evoke memories for owner–managers and lead to a dissipative approach towards managing their SMEs, creating resilience in the face of North Cyprus’ ever-changing political environment. Full article
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An Empirical Study on the Incentive Mechanism for Public Active Involvement in Grass-Roots Social Governance Based on Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory
by Qin Huang, Chuanhao Fan, Jigan Wang, Shiying Zheng and Guilu Sun
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14232; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114232 - 31 Oct 2022
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In the period of the normalization of COVID-19 prevention and control, Chinese grass-roots social governance, under the guidance of the dynamic zero-COVID policy, was unique, and the experience of actively mobilizing the public to be actively involved in grass-roots social governance, represented by [...] Read more.
In the period of the normalization of COVID-19 prevention and control, Chinese grass-roots social governance, under the guidance of the dynamic zero-COVID policy, was unique, and the experience of actively mobilizing the public to be actively involved in grass-roots social governance, represented by epidemic prevention and control, has a profound internal logic. The Chinese government has long been committed to building a social governance community, and further empirical studies are needed to motivate the public to participate in grass-roots social governance in a sustainable manner. This study uses 428 members of the public who have experience in grass-roots social governance in 20 street offices in 11 cities, including Nanjing, Wuhan and Chengdu, as a valid sample to empirically test the incentive mechanism for the public’s active involvement in grass-roots social governance, from the perspective of Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory. The empirical results show that exogenously driven organizational institutional factors will eventually positively influence the incentive effect on the public’s active involvement in grass-roots social governance through the mediating effect of the individual’s endogenous drive. By adjusting organizational institutional factors to meet the public’s inner drive for acquisition, bond, comprehension, and defense, public motivation can be mobilized and the public can be motivated to be involved in grass-roots social governance in a sustainable manner. The results of the study reveal the incentive mechanism for the public’s active involvement in grass-roots social governance, analyze the internal logic of Chinese characteristics in motivating the public’s active involvement in grass-roots governance, and expand the scope of the application of Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory in studying the incentives for the public’s active involvement in grass-roots social governance, which is important for revealing the characteristic laws in a Chinese context with empirical research. Full article
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