Rammed Earth - ACTivated: Development and prototypical production of prefabricated hybrid building components made of wood and rammed earth with integrated thermal activation (heating + cooling)
Project Description
Corporate resilience has emerged in recent years as a key topic in management research. Despite its high relevance, the concept remains conceptually and empirically ambiguous, as resilience is described variously as a capacity, a process, or an outcome. Existing measurement approaches, such as VOLARE or the model proposed by Ortiz-de-Mandojana & Bansal (2016), have provided important impulses but have thus far proven unconvincing in practice, leaving open essential requirements for comparability and applicability. The proposed project, therefore, aims to develop a novel, reliable, and valid resilience measure that systematically captures the multidimensionality of the construct. In doing so, it will strengthen the theoretical foundation and provide a basis for robust empirical research, while at the same time equipping companies and investors with a practical instrument to use resilience as a strategic indicator and to measure and compare their capacity to withstand crises in a sustainable way.
