Strategic and operational management of organizational resilience: Current state of research and future directions

•We employed both a systematic literature search and co-citation analysis to investigate the specific research domain of organizational resilience.•We clarify the meaning of the term resilience, and we propose a definition of organizational resilience.•We identify four wide research fields and a focus on four different directions, which accurately illustrate the current state of research.•We propose a research agenda containing seven future research directions.

This article uses both a systematic literature search and co-citation analysis to investigate the specific research domains of organizational resilience and its strategic and operational management to understand the current state of development and future research directions.The research stream on the organizational and operational management of resilience is distant from its infancy, but it can still be considered to be in a developing phase. We found evidence that the academic literature has reached a shared consensus on the definition of resilience, foundations, and characteristics and that in recent years, the main subfield of research has been supply chain resilience. Nevertheless, the literature is still far from reaching consensus on the implementation of resilience, i.e., how to reach operational resilience and how to create and maintain resilient processes. Finally, based on the results of in-depth co-citation and literature analysis, we found seven fruitful future research directions on strategic, organizational and operational resilience.