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Digital Resilience for the Climate Crisis: A Multi-Perspective Analysis

Wai Fong Boh¹; Nigel P. Melville²; João Baptista³; Friedrich Chasin⁴; Flavio Horita⁵; Anne Ixmeier⁶; Steven L. Johnson⁷; Wolfgang Ketter⁸; Johann Kranz⁶; Shaila Miranda⁹; Ning Nan¹⁰; Brian T. Pentland¹¹; Jan Recker¹²; Sepide Sadeghi¹³; Saonee Sarker¹⁴; Suprateek Sarker⁷; Juliana Sutanto¹⁵; Ping Wang¹⁶; Wahyu Wilopo¹⁷

¹ Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · ² Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. · ³ Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, U.K., and Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal · ⁴ Department of Business and Industrial Engineering, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany · ⁵ Center of Mathematics, Computation, and Cognition, Federal University of ABC, Brazil, · ⁶ LMU Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany · ⁷ McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A. · ⁸ Faculty of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany · ⁹ Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A. · ¹⁰ Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · ¹¹ Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A. · ¹² University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · ¹³ Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada · ¹⁴ Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A. · ¹⁵ Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia · ¹⁶ College of Information, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A. · ¹⁷ Department of Geological Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

This commentary explores multiple perspectives on the potential use of digital technologies to improve organizational resilience in the context of climate change. Such an approach is needed to address this complex problem space, especially since it encompasses a wide variety of phenomena, including floods and landslides, disruptions to global supply chains, heat waves, biodiversity loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and food insecurity. We assembled a diverse set of five scholarly teams specializing in multiple problem topics, research approaches, and theoretical perspectives on this project. Each team identified and problematized a specific facet of digital resilience for the climate crisis. The perspectives cover a range of rich narratives, including digital resilience in the context of floods and landslides in Brazil and Indonesia, conceptual development efforts incorporating the natural environment with people and technology, reconceptualization of the problem space in terms of time and type, and two applications of digital resilience in the domains of global supply chains and carbon emissions tracking. This research commentary thus presents a multi-perspective examination and interrogation of digital resilience for addressing the climate crisis, out of which four transcending themes emerge: the need to integrate nature into sociotechnical thinking, the need to examine actions at both micro and macro levels, the need to include both reactive and proactive strategies, and the need to view climate crisis as a process rather than a series of events. This commentary aims to motivate other scholars who take diverse theoretical perspectives to join us in developing fundamental knowledge and practical solutions needed to achieve digital resilience for the climate crisis.

DOI

10.25300/misq/2025/18779

Volume

50 (1)

Pages

1-34

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en

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