About the Journal
Crisis and Resilience
CRCrisis and Resilience (CR) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to research on organizational resilience, crisis management, adaptation, and transformation in complex and uncertain environments.
The journal provides a multidisciplinary platform for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to examine how organizations, institutions, and communities prepare for, respond to, recover from, and adapt to crises.
Journal Information
Aims
Crisis and Resilience aims to advance interdisciplinary understanding of how organizations and institutions develop, strengthen, and sustain resilience in the face of complex, uncertain, and rapidly changing crisis environments.
The journal focuses on the processes through which organizations learn from crises, adapt their strategies and structures, manage disruption, and pursue recovery and transformation. It welcomes research that contributes to theoretical development, empirical understanding, methodological advancement, and practical approaches to crisis and resilience.
The journal seeks to facilitate meaningful exchange among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers by connecting perspectives from organizational studies, crisis management, resilience research, public policy, governance, technology, and related fields.
Scope
The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, case studies, theoretical contributions, methodological studies, and policy-oriented analyses addressing crisis and resilience. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations
Theoretical models of organizational resilience in crisis contexts; evolution of resilience frameworks across industries and sectors; and integration of resilience with related concepts such as agility, adaptability, and sustainability.
Crisis Types and Contexts
Natural disasters and climate-related crises; public health emergencies and pandemics; economic and financial crises; cybersecurity and digital crises; and geopolitical and political crises.
Organizational Responses to Crisis
Leadership and decision-making; crisis communication and stakeholder engagement; crisis learning and organizational memory; post-crisis recovery and transformation; and innovation and digital transformation during crises.
Organizational Structures and Capabilities
Resilient organizational culture and values; agile and adaptive organizational structures; human resource management in crisis; supply chain resilience and risk management; and crisis-driven collaboration and partnerships.
Policy and Governance
Public policy and crisis governance; regulatory frameworks for crisis resilience; ethical and social responsibility in crisis management; and rebuilding and organizational responsibility in post-crisis societies.
Methodology and Research Approaches
Quantitative and qualitative research methods; mixed-methods and case study research; and applications of big data, artificial intelligence, and other analytical approaches to crisis management and resilience research.
Journal Policies & Services
Peer Review
Manuscripts submitted to Crisis and Resilience undergo editorial assessment and peer review in accordance with the journal's editorial policies. The journal uses a double-blind peer review process to support fair, objective, and confidential evaluation.
Open Access
Published articles are freely and immediately accessible online in their final Version of Record without a subscription or embargo.
Articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 license, unless otherwise stated for specific third-party material.
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original research that falls within the journal's scope and meets the journal's ethical, editorial, and scholarly requirements.
Publisher
Crisis and Resilience (CR) is published by Explorer Press Ltd.
The journal is committed to maintaining rigorous peer review, publication ethics, research integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly communication.
Crisis and Resilience (CR) supports interdisciplinary scholarly communication on crisis management, organizational resilience, adaptation, recovery, and transformation.