Standing Tall- corporate and societal resilience in an uncertain world (2021-2026)

This project investigates: (1) how resilience—the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change—can be practically achieved at and across firm, sectoral, and societal levels; (2) what the implications of efforts to achieve such resilience are for market society at large. The project focuses specifically on the resilience challenges triggered by three key contemporary change drivers: climate change, geopolitical instability, and digitalization.

While the issue of resilience is an important topic on corporate and political agendas it is relatively unexplored in academic research. The project addresses resilience from a systems perspective incorporating interactions between key change drivers, multiple levels of analysis (actor-sector-society), and the private and public spheres. It employs an interdisciplinary approach that combines insights and concepts from environmental science, military science, computer and systems science, business administration, economics, and political science.

Empirically, the project focuses on the transportation sector in Sweden using data from publicly available sources complemented by primary expert interviews. Expected contributions include an increased understanding of how resilience is achieved at actor-, sector-, and society-level, as well as new models and conceptual tools for integrated resilience planning. The project is fully funded by the Swedish Transport Administration (grant number TRV 2021/52640).

For more information, please contact hans.kjellberg@hhs.se or par.malmberg@phdstudent.hhs.se