TEAM RESILIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: WARTIME OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE
| dc.contributor.author | Korol, Andrii | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-10T09:10:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-10T09:10:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research studies team resilience as a core component of organizational resilience in the context of extreme and prolonged crisis. Organizational resilience is understood as a dynamic capability that give ablity for organizations to anticipate, overcome, adapt to, and transform internal processes in order to sustain survival, consistency and growth under conditions of uncertainty, volatility, and disruption. While existing literature identifies multiple interrelated components of organizational resilience such as leadership, strategy, operations, finance, culture, learning, and networks, this study focuses specifically on team resilience as a critical, underestimated launching mechanism. The objective of the research is to analyse how managerial decisions and leadership practices influenced the development of team resilience in Ukrainian organizations during the full-scale war in Ukraine. The study explores how teams were stabilized, coordinated, motivated, and adapted under conditions of high uncertainty, time pressure, and emotional deformation, and how these processes contributed to develop organizational resilience. The findings disclosed team resilience during crisis emerges not as a single practice, but as a configuration of interdependent managerial mechanisms. Leadership presence and sensemaking, rapid and reversible decision-making, intensified, transparent and fair communication, redistribution of responsibility, and meaning-based motivation were identified as primary resilience enablers during the initial shock phase. At the same time, the study highlights several crucial structural blind spots, including over-reliance on leadership centrality, delayed formalization of learning, communication saturation, unarticulated emotional labour, and uneven distribution of resilience capacity across organizational levels. Based on these insights, the research proposes a multi-stage framework for strengthening team resilience as an integral part of organizational resilience. The framework combines immediate crisis-response practices with longer-term institutionalization mechanisms and provides actionable recommendations for organizations operating not only in wartime or crisis contexts, but also in environments characterized by continuous instability. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Korol, A. (2026). TEAM RESILIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: WARTIME OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE. Kyiv: American University Kyiv. URI: https://er.auk.edu.ua/handle/234907866/169 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://er.auk.edu.ua/handle/234907866/169 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Manuscript | |
| dc.subject | organizational resilience | |
| dc.subject | team resilience | |
| dc.subject | managerial decision-making | |
| dc.subject | crisis leadership | |
| dc.subject | complex adaptive systems | |
| dc.subject | learning and adaptation | |
| dc.subject | Ukrainian organizations | |
| dc.title | TEAM RESILIENCE DEVELOPMENT IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: WARTIME OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE | |
| dc.title.alternative | РОЗВИТОК СТІЙКОСТІ КОМАНД В БІЗНЕС ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯХ: ДОСВІД ОПЕРАЦІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ПІД ЧАС ВІЙНИ | |
| dc.type | Thesis |