Team resilience in organizations: a conceptual and theoretical discussion of a team-level concept

Research on resilience in organizations is on the rise. Yet, despite the important role of teamwork in organizations, conceptual development of team resilience is still in its infancy. To address this shortcoming in the literature, in this chapter we present and discuss conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the concept of team resilience in the workplace. Taking a process perspective, we develop an integrative conceptual framework of team resilience in organizations. We highlight how team resilience develops through affective, social and cognitive team processes and how team resilience may change over time. In doing so, we integrate existing research on the phenomenon and discuss different theoretical perspectives that can help us better understand the different elements in the team resilience process.