The Organisational Resilience (OR) of Rural Non-Profits (RNPOs) under Conditions of the COVID-19 Pandemic Global Uncertainty

Grzegorz Tadeusz Paluszak, Joanna Alicja Wiśniewska-Paluszak, Joanna Schmidt and Jarosław Lira
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Grzegorz Tadeusz Paluszak: Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, 00-241 Warsaw, Poland
Joanna Alicja Wiśniewska-Paluszak: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznań, Poland
Joanna Schmidt: Department of Education and Personnel Development, Institute of Socio-Economics, Poznań University of Economics and Business, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
Jarosław Lira: Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economics, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznań, Poland

Agriculture, 2021, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-23

Abstract: The study investigated the organisational resilience (OR) levels of rural non-profit organisations (RNPOs) in the areas of activity or non-activity to adapt under the global uncertainty conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, in April/May 2020, the managers of 35 RNPOs located in Poland were queried. The Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient ( ρ S ), the coefficient of determination ( R 2 ) and a transformation coefficient ( d ) were primarily used to verify the hypotheses and interpret the relationships studied. The study revealed four OR descriptive levels—progressive (PR), sustainable (SR), regressive (RR), and downward (DR). The findings also show that the undertaken activities are related to the OR descriptive levels. RNPOs realised one of two adaptations: passive adaptation aimed at returning to the pre-pandemic original state with no changes may lead to a bounce backwards and an uncertain survival, whilst active adaptation leads to a transformation process between OR levels to move forward and thrive in adapting to post-pandemic changes. This study confirmed that building OR requires understanding the ways of transformations among OR levels to undertake activities in strategic areas, i.e., activity scope (AS), cooperation (CO), and finance (FI), to adapt and transform RNPOs’ in an environment of post-pandemic uncertainty.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; uncertainty; organisational resilience (OR); non-profit organisations (NPOs); rural non-profit organisations (RNPOs) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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