From Sustainability to Resilience: A Change of Wording or a Change in Thinking?

Barbara Czarniawska

doi:10.18778/2450-4491.09.14

Authors

Barbara Czarniawska University of Gothenburg, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7052-3606

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2450-4491.09.14

Keywords:

sustainability, resilience, resilience and sustainability

Abstract

During the past ten years or so, any application for a research grant had to contain the word “sustainability”. Recently, however, sustainability has given way to “resilience”. Why this change? It could be a change in research fashion, or the recently produced atmosphere of threat, especially in relation to cities.

Author Biography

Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Czarniawska Barbara – a Senior Professor in Management Studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Doctor honoris causa at Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Helsinki School of Economics, and Aalborg University, she is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg and Societas Scientiarum Finnica. She is interested in methodology, especially in techniques of fieldwork and in the application of narratology to organization studies.

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