Categorisation of reviewed literature by resilience definition
| Food Specificity? | Context | Author | Definition | Engineering | Ecological | Adaptive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food Specific | Social Systems | Milestad and Darnhofer (2003) | “The magnitude of disturbance that can be experienced before a system moves into a different state with different sets of controls” | X | ||
| Smith et al. (2016) | “The existence, development, and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterised by change, uncertainty, unpredictability, and surprise and to develop new trajectories for the community’s future” | X | ||||
| Tendall et al. (2015) | “Capacity over time of a food system and its units at multiple levels, to provide sufficient, appropriate and accessible food to all, in the face of various and even unforeseen disturbance” | X | ||||
| Sinclair et al. (2014) | ‘‘The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks’’ | X | ||||
| Macfadyen et al. (2015) | “Here we talk about resilience in terms of production variability and the ability of agro-ecosystems to maintain stability in production levels even in the face of disturbances” | X | ||||
| King (2008) | “A system’s ability to adapt and respond to external impacts on a system” | X | ||||
| Supply Chain Management | Carvalho et al. (2012a, 2012b) | “Supply Chain resilience is concerned with the system’s ability to return to its original state or to a new, more desirable, one, after experiencing a disturbance, and avoiding the occurrence of failure modes” | X | |||
| Ivanov et al. (2015) | “Resilience refers to the capacity of organizations or systems to return to full functionality in the face of disruption” | X | ||||
| Yang and Xu (2015) | “The ability of a system to return to its original state or move to a new and more desirable state after being disturbed, or to adapt existing resources and skills to new situations and operating conditions, in order to survive despite withstanding a severe and enduring impact” | X | ||||
| Fałkowski (2015) | “The term “resilience” refers to the ability of a system to maintain output close to potential in the aftermath of shocks or, alternatively, the ability of a system to return to its original state after being disturbed” | X | ||||
| Leat and Revoredo-Giha (2013) | “Resilience aims at developing the adaptive capability of the chain to prepare for unexpected events and to respond to disruptions and recover from them” | X | ||||
| Manning and Soon (2016) | “Strategic resilience is not about responding to a single crisis or rebounding from a setback, it encompasses anticipating and reacting to secular trends that can permanently impair the earning power of the core business” | X | ||||
| Organisational Management | Higgins et al. (2010) | “Resilience is the capacity of a system to recover from disturbance and maintain its structure function and controls with the human element of socio-ecological systems able to proactively avoid or benefit from such disturbances” | X | |||
| Non-Food Specific | Social Systems | Milman and Short (2008) | “Resilience includes more than maintaining given system characteristics; it includes the adaptive capacity of the system—its ability to adapt to stresses and changes and to transform into more desirable states” | X | ||
| Ponomarov and Holcomb (2009) | “The adaptive capability of the supply chain to prepare for unexpected events, respond to disruptions and recover from them by maintaining continuity of operations at the desired level of connectedness and control over structure and function” | X | ||||
| Manyena (2006) | “Resilience could be viewed as the intrinsic capacity of a system, community or society predisposed to a shock or stress to adapt and survive by changing its non-essential attributes and rebuilding itself” | X | ||||
| Davoudi et al. (2012) | “Resilience is not conceived of as a return to normality, but rather as the ability of complex socio-ecological systems to change, adapt, and, crucially, transform in response to stresses and strains” | X | ||||
| Rose (2011) | “The ability of a system to maintain function when shocked and to hasten the speed of recovery from a shock” | X | ||||
| McDaniels et al. (2008) | “A complex system’s capacity to absorb shocks while maintaining function. Enhanced by both risk mitigation activities undertaken before the disaster and response activities following the event” | X | ||||
| Ecological Systems | Derissen et al. (2011) | “The magnitude of disturbance that can be absorbed before the system changes its structure by changing the variables and processes that control behaviour” | X | |||
| Fiksel (2003) | “Resilience can be defined as the capacity of a system to tolerate disturbances whilst retaining its structure and function” | X | ||||
| Tukamuhabwa et al. (2015) | “The adaptive capability of a supply chain to prepare for and/or respond to disruptions, to make a timely and cost effective recovery, and therefore progress to a post-disruption state of operations – ideally, a better state than prior to the disruption” | X | ||||
| Lebel et al. (2006) | “Resilience is a measure of the amount of change a system can undergo and still retain the same controls on structure and function or remain in the same domain of attraction” | X | ||||
| Redman (2014) | “Resilience is the capacity of a system to experience shocks while retaining function, structure, feedback capabilities, and therefore identity” | X | ||||
| Folke (2006) | “The capacity of the system ‘to absorb disturbance and re-organise while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks’’ | X | ||||
| Supply Chain Management | Colicchia et al. (2010) | “The ability of a system to quickly react to the undesired events when they happen” | X | |||
| Carvalho et al. (2012a, 2012b) | “Resilience refers to the ability of the supply chain to cope with unexpected disturbances. It is concerned with the system ability to return to its original state or to a new one, more desirable, after experiencing a disturbance, and avoiding the occurrence of failure modes” | X | ||||
| Todo et al. (2015) | “Defined as speedy recovery through the repair and reconstruction of capital stock” | X | ||||
| Kamalahmadi and Parast (2016) | “We define Firm/Enterprise Resilience as “the dynamic capability of an enterprise, which is highly dependent on its individuals, groups, and sub- systems, to face immediate and unexpected changes in the environment with proactive attitude and thought, and adapt and respond to these changes by developing flexible and innovative solutions” | X | ||||
| Pereira et al. (2014) | “Supply chain resilience is defined here as the capability of supply chains to respond quickly to unexpected events so as to restore operations to the previous performance level or even to a new and better one” | X | ||||
| Pettit et al.(2008) | “The capacity for an enterprise to survive, adapt and grow in the face of turbulent change” | X | ||||
| Elleuch et al. (2016a, 2016b) | “In this context, resilience is defined as the ability of a system to return to its original state or a more favourable condition, after being disturbed” | X | ||||
| Wang et al. (2016) | “A resilient system is a system with an objective to survive and maintain function even during the course of disruptions, provided with a capability to predict and assess the damage of possible disruptions, and enhanced by the strong awareness of its ever-changing environment and knowledge of the past events, thereby utilizing resilient strategies for defence against the disruptions” | X | ||||
| Brandon-Jones et al. (2014) | “We define supply chain resilience as the ability of a supply chain to return to normal operating performance, within an acceptable period of time, after being disturbed” | X | ||||
| Peck (2005) | “The ability of a system to return to its original [or desired] state after being disturbed” | X | ||||
| Ambulkar et al. (2015) | “Firm’s resilience to supply chain disruptions is defined as the capability of the firm to be alert to, adapt to, and quickly respond to changes brought by a supply chain disruption” | X | ||||
| Jüttner and Maklan. (2011) | “Supply chain resilience addresses the supply chain’s ability to cope with the consequences of unavoidable risk events in order to return to its original operations or move to a new, more desirable state after being disturbed” | X | ||||
| Christopher and Peck (2004) | “The ability of a system to return to its original state or move to a new, more desirable state after being disturbed” | X | ||||
| Organisational | Asbjornslett et al. (1999) | “Resilience may be defined as a system’s ability to return to a new stable situation after an accidental event” | X | |||
| Fahimnia and Jabbarzadeh (2016) | “The capacity of a SC to absorb disturbances and retain its basic function and structure in the face of disruptions” | X | ||||
| Kim et al. (2015) | “We define supply network resilience as a network-level attribute to withstand disruptions that may be triggered at the node or arc level” | X | ||||
| Annarelli and Nonino (2016) | “Organizational resilience is the organization’s capability to face disruptions and unexpected events in advance thanks to the strategic awareness and a linked operational management to internal and external shocks. The resilience is static, when founded on preparedness and preventive measures to minimize threats probability and to reduce any impact that may occur, and dynamic, when founded on the ability of managing disruptions and unexpected events to shorten unfavourable aftermaths and maximize the organization’s speed of recovery to the original or to a new more desirable state” | X | ||||
| Aigbogun et al. (2014) | “Resilience confers on the supply chain the ability to return to original or perhaps better supply chain performance under emergency risk environment” | X | ||||
| Engineering/Physical System | Caschili et al. (2015) | “We can use the concept of resilience in order to describe the capacity of a hierarchical economic system (composed of several sub systems), to recover after being subject to a variety of challenges (shocks, disruptions, attacks, etc.) which move the system from its equilibrium” | X | |||
| Cimellaro et al. (2010) | ‘‘Intrinsic capacity of a system, community or society predisposed to a shock or stress to adapt and survive by changing its non-essential attributes and rebuilding itself’’ | X | ||||
| Spiegler et al. (2012) | ‘‘The ability of a system to return to its original state or move to a new, more desirable state after being disturbed’’ | X | ||||
| Soni et al. (2014) | “Supply chains must be multidimensional and multidisciplinary, designed to incorporate event readiness, provide an efficient and effective response and be capable of recovering to their original state or improved state after a disruption; this is the meaning of supply chain resilience” | X | ||||
| Berle et al. (2011) | “In this paper, resilience is defined as the ability of the supply chain to handle a disruption without significant impact on the ability to serve the supply chain mission” | X | ||||
| Total Definitions: 48 | Sum: 11 | Sum: 18 | Sum:19 | |||
| “The magnitude of disturbance that can be experienced before a system moves into a different state with different sets of controls” | X | |||||
| “The existence, development, and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterised by change, uncertainty, unpredictability, and surprise and to develop new trajectories for the community’s future” | X | |||||
| “Capacity over time of a food system and its units at multiple levels, to provide sufficient, appropriate and accessible food to all, in the face of various and even unforeseen disturbance” | X | |||||
| ‘‘The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks’’ | X | |||||
| “Here we talk about resilience in terms of production variability and the ability of agro-ecosystems to maintain stability in production levels even in the face of disturbances” | X | |||||
| “A system’s ability to adapt and respond to external impacts on a system” | X | |||||
| “Supply Chain resilience is concerned with the system’s ability to return to its original state or to a new, more desirable, one, after experiencing a disturbance, and avoiding the occurrence of failure modes” | X | |||||
| “Resilience refers to the capacity of organizations or systems to return to full functionality in the face of disruption” | X | |||||
| “The ability of a system to return to its original state or move to a new and more desirable state after being disturbed, or to adapt existing resources and skills to new situations and operating conditions, in order to survive despite withstanding a severe and enduring impact” | X | |||||
| Fałkowski (2015) | “The term “resilience” refers to the ability of a system to maintain output close to potential in the aftermath of shocks or, alternatively, the ability of a system to return to its original state after being disturbed” | X | ||||
| “Resilience aims at developing the adaptive capability of the chain to prepare for unexpected events and to respond to disruptions and recover from them” | X | |||||
| “Strategic resilience is not about responding to a single crisis or rebounding from a setback, it encompasses anticipating and reacting to secular trends that can permanently impair the earning power of the core business” | X | |||||
| “Resilience is the capacity of a system to recover from disturbance and maintain its structure function and controls with the human element of socio-ecological systems able to proactively avoid or benefit from such disturbances” | X | |||||
| “Resilience includes more than maintaining given system characteristics; it includes the adaptive capacity of the system—its ability to adapt to stresses and changes and to transform into more desirable states” | X | |||||
| “The adaptive capability of the supply chain to prepare for unexpected events, respond to disruptions and recover from them by maintaining continuity of operations at the desired level of connectedness and control over structure and function” | X | |||||
| “Resilience could be viewed as the intrinsic capacity of a system, community or society predisposed to a shock or stress to adapt and survive by changing its non-essential attributes and rebuilding itself” | X | |||||
| “Resilience is not conceived of as a return to normality, but rather as the ability of complex socio-ecological systems to change, adapt, and, crucially, transform in response to stresses and strains” | X | |||||
| “The ability of a system to maintain function when shocked and to hasten the speed of recovery from a shock” | X | |||||
| “A complex system’s capacity to absorb shocks while maintaining function. Enhanced by both risk mitigation activities undertaken before the disaster and response activities following the event” | X | |||||
| “The magnitude of disturbance that can be absorbed before the system changes its structure by changing the variables and processes that control behaviour” | X | |||||
| “Resilience can be defined as the capacity of a system to tolerate disturbances whilst retaining its structure and function” | X | |||||
| “The adaptive capability of a supply chain to prepare for and/or respond to disruptions, to make a timely and cost effective recovery, and therefore progress to a post-disruption state of operations – ideally, a better state than prior to the disruption” | X | |||||
| “Resilience is a measure of the amount of change a system can undergo and still retain the same controls on structure and function or remain in the same domain of attraction” | X | |||||
| “Resilience is the capacity of a system to experience shocks while retaining function, structure, feedback capabilities, and therefore identity” | X | |||||
| “The capacity of the system ‘to absorb disturbance and re-organise while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks’’ | X | |||||
| “The ability of a system to quickly react to the undesired events when they happen” | X | |||||
| “Resilience refers to the ability of the supply chain to cope with unexpected disturbances. It is concerned with the system ability to return to its original state or to a new one, more desirable, after experiencing a disturbance, and avoiding the occurrence of failure modes” | X | |||||
| “Defined as speedy recovery through the repair and reconstruction of capital stock” | X | |||||
| “We define Firm/Enterprise Resilience as “the dynamic capability of an enterprise, which is highly dependent on its individuals, groups, and sub- systems, to face immediate and unexpected changes in the environment with proactive attitude and thought, and adapt and respond to these changes by developing flexible and innovative solutions” | X | |||||
| “Supply chain resilience is defined here as the capability of supply chains to respond quickly to unexpected events so as to restore operations to the previous performance level or even to a new and better one” | X | |||||
| Pettit | “The capacity for an enterprise to survive, adapt and grow in the face of turbulent change” | X | ||||
| “In this context, resilience is defined as the ability of a system to return to its original state or a more favourable condition, after being disturbed” | X | |||||
| X | ||||||
| X | ||||||
| “The ability of a system to return to its original [or desired] state after being disturbed” | X | |||||
| “Firm’s resilience to supply chain disruptions is defined as the capability of the firm to be alert to, adapt to, and quickly respond to changes brought by a supply chain disruption” | X | |||||
| “Supply chain resilience addresses the supply chain’s ability to cope with the consequences of unavoidable risk events in order to return to its original operations or move to a new, more desirable state after being disturbed” | X | |||||
| “The ability of a system to return to its original state or move to a new, more desirable state after being disturbed” | X | |||||
| Asbjornslett | “Resilience may be defined as a system’s ability to return to a new stable situation after an accidental event” | X | ||||
| “The capacity of a SC to absorb disturbances and retain its basic function and structure in the face of disruptions” | X | |||||
| “We define supply network resilience as a network-level attribute to withstand disruptions that may be triggered at the node or arc level” | X | |||||
| “Organizational resilience is the organization’s capability to face disruptions and unexpected events in advance thanks to the strategic awareness and a linked operational management to internal and external shocks. The resilience is static, when founded on preparedness and preventive measures to minimize threats probability and to reduce any impact that may occur, and dynamic, when founded on the ability of managing disruptions and unexpected events to shorten unfavourable aftermaths and maximize the organization’s speed of recovery to the original or to a new more desirable state” | X | |||||
| “Resilience confers on the supply chain the ability to return to original or perhaps better supply chain performance under emergency risk environment” | X | |||||
| Engineering/Physical System | “We can use the concept of resilience in order to describe the capacity of a hierarchical economic system (composed of several sub systems), to recover after being subject to a variety of challenges (shocks, disruptions, attacks, etc.) which move the system from its equilibrium” | X | ||||
| ‘‘Intrinsic capacity of a system, community or society predisposed to a shock or stress to adapt and survive by changing its non-essential attributes and rebuilding itself’’ | X | |||||
| ‘‘The ability of a system to return to its original state or move to a new, more desirable state after being disturbed’’ | X | |||||
| “Supply chains must be multidimensional and multidisciplinary, designed to incorporate event readiness, provide an efficient and effective response and be capable of recovering to their original state or improved state after a disruption; this is the meaning of supply chain resilience” | X | |||||
| “In this paper, resilience is defined as the ability of the supply chain to handle a disruption without significant impact on the ability to serve the supply chain mission” | X | |||||
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