The Model to Evaluate Organizational Resilience in Knowledge-Based Companies in the Plastics Industry

Today organizations for development must be able to be progressive, adaptable, and resilient to fluctuations and challenges, so familiarity with the basic concepts of resilience and its development is of particular importance for all organizations. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to design a model to evaluate organizational resilience in knowledge-based companies in the plastics industry. This research is exploratory research in terms of purpose and in terms of results, it is applied research and qualitative and quantitative data were used. The statistical population of the qualitative sector includes a group of academic experts and senior executives and the statistical population of the quantitative sector are the senior managers of knowledge-based companies in the plastics industry in a way that in the qualitative part, 15 people were determined by the theoretical saturation method, and in the quantitative part, 128 people were determined by the census method of all managers as the sample size. In order to collect data, interviews were used in the qualitative part and a researcher-made questionnaire was used in the quantitative part. For data analysis, theme analysis was used in the qualitative part and structural equation technique was used in the quantitative part, and the results showed that the dimensions of the model including individual, managerial, organizational and environmental have a good fit.