Wissem Ajili, Imen Ben Slimene
This study aimed to analyse how business and management research will evolve in the post-COVID-19 period. To answer this research question, we focused on resilience as an alternative objective of new strategies and policies developed in response to COVID-19. Indeed, the increased risks and the recurrence of extreme events have made the environment more uncertain and unpredictable. Consequently, all branches of the social sciences have been forced to cope with this new normal. One response to this disruption was to integrate resilience as a goal. We conducted a multidisciplinary literature review of more than 50 papers in the business and management field, mainly during the crisis. We concluded that the COVID-19 crisis has dethroned the objectives of effectiveness and efficiency and the criteria of global performance in favour of new theories and practices based on more resilient approaches. Resilience may undoubtedly be the cornerstone of future business and management research.