Resilience

2025
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Organizing for resilience in high-risk organizations: The interplay between managerial coordination and control in resolving stability/flexibility tensions in a nuclear power plant

To avoid accidents, organizations operating in high-risk environments must develop resilience in the face of uncertainty. While uncertainty can be reduced through anticipation and prevention via procedural barriers—ensuring organizational stability—it can also be managed through actor autonomy, allowing for prompt, localized responses that enhance organizational flexibility. This qualitative case study of a European nuclear power […]

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2021
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Unintended cascading effects of expanding organizational limits for resilience: lessons from the nuclear industry

The recent COVID pandemic revived the interest in resilience as the ability to absorb strain and preserve (or improve) functioning despite the presence of adversity. To increase resilience, organizations must articulate both the ways to deal with predictable and unpredictable events. In this study, the theory of organizational limits was used with the aim to […]

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2021
  • Yoann Guntzburger
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Leadership for Resilience and Safety Management: Crossing Perspectives on Individual and Collective Tensions in the Nuclear Industry

Paper presented at the Association pour la gestion des connaissances dans la société et les organisations (AGeCSO) Conference, held online and in Chambon-sur-Lac, France, from 18 to 20 May 2021. More information:

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Publication Type(s): Colloquium, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Resilience, Safety Management
2021
  • Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva
  • Renata Kaminska
  • Catherine Thomas

Resilience and organizational limits in the high-risk nuclear industry context

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis renewed scholarly interest in organizational resilience. To ensure resilience, organizations must develop the ability to proactively prepare for ambiguous and unexpected situations. From this perspective, resilience may be considered as a mindful process leading to reliability where mindfulness allows to collectively manage stability/vividness tension and extend individual limits of attention. Following […]

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Publication Type(s): Conference, ELSE, Professional
Publication Tags: Management, Resilience