Chaotic world: beyond resilience, towards antifragility

Monde chaotique: au-delà de la résilience, vers l’antifragilité

Soufyane Frimousse () and Hugo Gaillard ()
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Soufyane Frimousse: LISA - Laboratoire « Lieux, Identités, eSpaces, Activités » (UMR CNRS 6240 LISA) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli [Université de Corse Pascal Paoli]
Hugo Gaillard: ARGUMans - Laboratoire de recherche en gestion Le Mans Université - UM - Le Mans Université

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Abstract: This work addresses the potential of work on anti-fragility (Taleb, 2012; 2013) to complement the concept of resilience at the individual and organizational levels. We propose a distinction between fragile, resilient and antifragile. These capacities are distinguished by the nature of the decisions taken in a crisis context, and the finality of these decisions on the psychological and professional state of individuals: antifragile is reinforced by chaos. The individual and organizational conditions for the emergence of these capacities are then discussed. Finally, we consider antifragility at the organizational, team and individual levels. We introduce the notion of antifragility and hypothesize that it contributes to antifragility as a capability. The work culminates in the proposal of a research program that addresses the positioning of this concept (i.e. the levels of its analysis), the exploration and finally the measurement tools to be developed.

Keywords: Crisis; Learning; Resilience; Complexity; Antifragility; Crise; Apprentissage; Résilience; Complexité; Antifragilité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Recherches en sciences de gestion, 2021, 142, pp.271-307. ⟨10.3917/resg.142.0271⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/resg.142.0271

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