The magazine “Questions de management” interviewed a group of actors in May 2020 (Questions de management N°28 pages 149-242) on “what are the organizational changes brought about by the Covid-19 crisis? Eighty research professors, consultants, company directors, HRDs, operational and functional managers, living in 22 countries on four continents, gave their answers. All of them emphasized the acceleration of transformations, emphasized new managerial innovations, new ways of working and announced organizational changes for the pandemic and highlighted the resilience that their organizations have shown in this situation of uncertainty. 

Resilience is defined by WEICK and others. (2007) as “the ability to make sense of events that pose significant risks to the company’s sustainability. It allows organizations to continue to develop in an unfavorable environment, to find new solutions and to reinvent their management. The concept of resilience has been widely discussed in all disciplines: Sociology, philosophy, management, psychology, health, engineering, computer science and information systems security, etc. 

This symposium is in line with this logic; it will allow the various speakers to present their work, share their experiences in terms of resilience and agility in an ecosystem, and answer the following main questions: How can we rethink current management approaches and take into account the resilience component? If current models have proven ineffective in dealing with crises, what organizational changes should be introduced? What are the associated constraints? How can we move from fragile management to agile management?