Enhancing inter-organizational resilience by loose coupling concept and complexity paradigm

Colin Lalouette (1, 2) , Bernard Pavard (2)

1 CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises
2 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours

During a co-design project, we modeled formal and informal cooperation which are expressions of tight and loose couplings. Our findings confirm that loose couplings are crucial since they enable selforganization and emerging processes which often underlie success of codesign. We offer new insight into management and organization theories by presenting an inter-organizational resilience model which explains how non-deterministic couplings can enhance inter-organizational resilience.

Mots clés: Resilience; loose couplings

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Colin Lalouette, Bernard Pavard. Enhancing inter-organizational resilience by loose coupling concept and complexity paradigm. Third resilience engineering symposium, Oct 2008, Antibes – Juan-les-Pins, France. 8 p. ⟨hal-00508952⟩