关键词: 运营冗余, 组织韧性, 持续创新能力, VUCA, 制造业企业

Abstract: Organizational resilience can help firms cope with crisis by reconfiguring their resources and processes. While it can be costly to keep and reduce profitability, organizational slack can also act as a buffer resource to ensure business sustainability. In today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment, there is a demanding need for manufacturing companies to enhance their organizational resilience to ensure business sustainability. Simultaneously, this problem has attracted the increasing attention of scholars from different disciplines. This paper aims to study the impact of operational slack on organizational resilience and further probe the moderating effect of sustainable innovation capability. It evaluates the hypotheses using the secondary information of Chinese based publicly trade manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2020. The empirical analysis reveals that operational slack has a U-shaped impact on organizational resilience. The findings support the positive moderating role of sustainable innovation capability. Finally, based on the “resource-capability” theoretical framework, it identifies two key conditions that affect the relationship between operational slack and organizational resilience, providing academic guidance and decision-making suggestions for improving the organizational resilience of local manufacturing firms in the VUCA context.

Key words: operational slack, organizational resilience, sustainable innovation capability (SIC), VUCA, manufacturing industry