Reza Manouchehri Rad; Hesam ZandHesami; Ali Davari; Morteza Mousakhani
Abstract
Organizational resilience (OR) as a change capacity & adaptability to environmental challenges is a concept which has been considered by scholars in the last two decades. Cognitive Resilience (CR) as a prerequisite of OR is a mental process for remembering, understanding, analyzing ...
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Organizational resilience (OR) as a change capacity & adaptability to environmental challenges is a concept which has been considered by scholars in the last two decades. Cognitive Resilience (CR) as a prerequisite of OR is a mental process for remembering, understanding, analyzing and applying them for decision-making, problem-solving and responding to the environmental changes and it is important. Since previous researches have focused more on cognitive, behavioral & affective resilience’s what and why, the purpose of this research was to present an application pattern for answering to this question that how the level of organization’s CR could be changed by Iranian entrepreneurs’ indigenous knowledge (IK) based on dimensions and important indexes. This research is qualitative and narrative that its method is discourse analysis method based on in-depth interviews.The results of 10 established entrepreneurs’ living experience & 2 entrepreneurship researchers, who have had resilient experience in their work or business mentorship showed how entrepreneurs’ IK & conceptual knowledge based on the hierarchical property of systems theory, lead to cognitive innovation in three stages: A. Hard cognitive resilience includes sub-processes remembering & understanding; B. Soft cognitive resilience includes sub-processes application, analysis & evaluation; C. Conviction cognitive resilience includes sub-process innovation. Based on this finding, since the CR as an organizational behavior is a type of collective learning (such as adaptability & proactively), we suggested entrepreneurs analyze this important construct as an underlying assumption of organizational culture during business model reinventing for realizing OR.
