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Deeply ingrained cultural norms dictate an organization's long-term resilience pathways during a crisis, often causing long-term resilience outcomes and processes to differ significantly from short-term crisis responses. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how short- and long-term organizational resilience manifest and diverge across innovation-driven firms during crisis transitions.

August 29, 2026Research-Technology ManagementOpen Access

Culture Matters: Organizational Resilience in the Face of Crisis

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SFSebastian K. FixsonBabson College GOGina OConnorBabson College JSJonathan SimsBabson College

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Longitudinal study reveals divergent adaptation pathways in global industrial R&D units, highlighting organizational culture as the primary determinant of long-term resilience.

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To examine how short- and long-term organizational resilience manifest and diverge across innovation-driven firms during crisis transitions.
Conducted an 18-month longitudinal study tracking four research and development (R&D) units situated within large global industrial firms.
Applied a process-oriented lens to evaluate transitions from immediate emergency remote work to sustained hybrid operating arrangements.
Short-term operational resilience diverged substantially from long-term resilience within the same organizations, displaying distinct trajectories in both process and ultimate outcomes.
Ingrained cultural norms governed organizational narratives during disruption, systematically enabling specific adaptation pathways while constraining others because cultural values could not be rapidly restructured during a crisis.

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Fixson et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9299088e5d7d1fc0c10c68 https://doi.org/10.1080/08956308.2026.2697696

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Longitudinal study reveals divergent adaptation pathways in global industrial R&D units, highlighting organizational culture as the primary determinant of long-term resilience.

Culture Matters: Organizational Resilience in the Face of Crisis

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Culture Matters: Organizational Resilience in the Face of Crisis

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