Pro-activeness or Adaptability: Analyzing Appropriate Organizational Resilience Strategies Based on Perceived Business Environment Capacity & Institutional Quality

Organizational resilience (OR) is an organizational behavior for answering crisis and challenges. It redirects the organization to use opportunities and innovation, with the results improvement and coherence of the performance. Since the resilience creates framework with adaptive or proactive environmental approach, with the aim of understanding the relationship between organizational resilience strategy and the characteristics of Iran's business environment the current study has tried to answer the question: “How to increase the overall level of OR that moderate environmental effects on Iranian business?” This research is applied in terms of purpose. The research method has used the qualitative grounded theory (Glaisarian approach) with deep targeted interviews. The results of 10 established entrepreneur’s interviews, who have had resilient experience in their work & 2 entrepreneurship researchers, who have had business mentorship experience have shown proactive pattern is selected by the interaction of three resilience stream (Cognitive Resilience, Affective-Value Resilience & Behavior Resilience) in IRAN’s business environment. In This pattern, access to success, opportunity, organizational structure, information and learning is different with adoptive approach. Finally, it is recommended that policy makers reform business model rebuilding and recreation by choosing the appropriate pattern of OR.