Abstract The ability to be resilient, to recover and bounce back when confronted with a threatening and stressful external event, such as the most recent global economic crisis, is an important issue for strategic management research, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Research studies on firm level antecedents of resilience offer contradictory propositions, some of which stress the need for experimentation, while others suggest focusing on reliability. To disentangle this controversy and face this gap, our study proposes that for SMEs to achieve resilience, it is necessary that these companies are able to efficiently respond to the changing environments through ambidexterity and strategic consistency. We test our hypotheses on a dataset of 2765 manufacturing SMEs and provide strong evidence for our model of antecedents of SMEs’ resilience.

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什么解释了中小企业的韧性？灵巧能力和战略一致性

摘要 在面临威胁和压力的外部事件（例如最近的全球经济危机）时恢复和反弹的能力是战略管理研究的一个重要问题，特别是对于中小型企业（SMEs）。 ）。对韧性的企业层面前因的研究提供了相互矛盾的主张，其中一些强调实验的必要性，而另一些则建议关注可靠性。为了解决这一争议并面对这一差距，我们的研究提出，中小企业要想实现韧性，就必须使这些公司能够通过双元性和战略一致性有效应对不断变化的环境。