Resilient Businesses: Assessment, Approaches and Technology

This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers addressing approaches and tools for assessing and improving business resiliency. Research papers address the multifaceted phenomena of managing the collective and of the distributed capacities required to (1) anticipate potentially disruptive events; (2) avoid or prevent their occurrence; (3) plan and prepare for disruption in order to protect the business; and (4) recover to a new, fully functional state and assure continued operations. Covered topics include the definition of the concept of business resilience, the identification of factors affecting resilience, measurement tools for assessing business resilience, principles guiding the design of resilient businesses, challenges to consider when implementing changes for increasing business resilience (cognitive, strategic, technological, political, and ideological), resilience simulation models, resilience assessment tools, information systems for supporting the resilience of businesses, business continuity, and risk management, among others. Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Prof. Dr. Isabel Ramos
Prof. Dr. Rui Dinis Sousa
Guest Editors

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