This paper examines financial cooperatives (credit unions) in Ireland and their response to COVID-19. The paper offers two contributions. The first is the Cooperative Resilience Framework, which highlights the importance of iterative, heuristic responses in building capabilities that enable routine-based responses. These responses, in turn, avoid and absorb the effects of disruption in subsequent similar crises. The second contribution is empirical, demonstrating the how of resilience by offering a better understanding of how the credit unions’ collective actions created dynamic, agile responses that helped them to “bounce forward” after the crisis. Key themes identified include agility, strong social relationships, and decentralized decision-making (empowerment).

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合作韧性：危机中集体行动的启发式模型

本文探讨了爱尔兰的金融合作社（信用合作社）及其对 COVID-19 的应对措施。该论文提供了两个贡献。第一个是合作弹性框架，它强调了迭代、启发式响应在构建能够实现基于常规响应的能力方面的重要性。这些应对措施反过来又避免并吸收了后续类似危机中破坏性的影响。第二个贡献是实证性的，通过更好地理解信用合作社的集体行动如何创造动态、敏捷的反应，帮助他们在危机后“反弹”，展示了韧性如何。确定的关键主题包括敏捷性、牢固的社会关系和分散决策（授权）。