Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Unraveling the meaning and measurement of organizational resilience

This thesis adopts a systematic and novel approach to evaluating what scholars have written via a comprehensive and technical examination of the literature (articles published between 1988 and 2016 across ten computerized databases). Major articles were systematically reviewed using a machine-based text analysis, Leximancer, revealing which themes pervade the field of scholarship based on what is written. In utilizing this approach, the current thesis focuses on concepts and themes that emerge from the text without allowing reading of articles to influence what was derived conceptually (thus reducing bias), as might be the case in narrative reviews.