In this paper, we introduce a novel way of understanding organizational resilience. We suggest that organizational resilience can be profitably viewed as an evolutionary process in which organizations adapt their configurations in response to changes in two external conditions — disturbance and munificence. Focusing on the contexts of manufacturing and operations management, we begin by explaining the concepts of organizational configuration and resilience. We then present a framework that views resilience-driven configuration change as an evolutionary process of variation, selection, and retention for a population of firms. The final component of this framework is the use of the cladistic method of classification to develop a hypothesis of the branching order of configuration change. We conclude the paper by presenting a typology that shows how different levels of munificence and disturbance combine to produce two types of adaptive resilience (cladogenetic and anagenetic) and one type of non-adaptive resilience (inertia). We also explain how phylograms can be used to indicate the amount of time separating different organizational configurations.

在本文中，我们介绍了一种理解组织弹性的新颖方法。我们建议，组织的弹性可以从发展的过程中获利，组织可以根据其自身的配置来适应两种外部条件（即干扰和机敏）的变化。着眼于制造和运营管理的上下文，我们首先说明组织配置和弹性的概念。然后，我们提出了一个框架，该框架将弹性驱动的配置更改视为企业群体的变化，选择和保留的进化过程。该框架的最后一个组成部分是使用分类的分类方法来发展配置变化分支顺序的假设。我们通过提出一种类型学来结束本文，该类型学显示了不同程度的机敏性和干扰如何结合以产生两种类型的适应性弹性（cladgeneetic和anagnetic）和一种类型的非适应性弹性（惯性）。我们还解释了系统记录表如何用于指示分隔不同组织配置的时间量。