The relationship between slack resources and organizational resilience: The moderating role of dual learning

Abstract

Slack resources and organizational learning are key elements in building organizational resilience. This paper constructs an impact model of organizational resilience and investigates the impact of slack resources on organizational resilience using data from Chinese-listed companies, as well as verifying the moderating effect of organizational dual learning through hierarchical analysis. The findings show that: Firstly, both absorbed slack resources and unabsorbed slack resources promote organizational resilience. Secondly, organizational learning has a moderating effect on the relationship between slack resources and organizational resilience, where organizational exploitative learning positively moderates the relationship between unabsorbed slack resources and organizational resilience, while organizational exploitative learning negatively moderates the relationship between absorbed slack resources and organizational resilience. Accordingly, organizations should pay attention to the composition of slack resources and the coordination between slack resources and organizational dual learning in order to improve organizational resilience.

Keywords

• Slack resources
• Organizational resilience
• Organizational learning
• Exploitative learning