From Crisis Response to Adaptive Capacity: Mapping Organizational Resilience Research in Educational Institutions

Organizational resilience has emerged as a critical construct for sustaining learning, teaching, and institutional functioning. However, research on organizational resilience in education remains dispersed across disciplines and lacks an integrated synthesis of its development and thematic focus. This study addressed this gap through a Bibliometric?Systematic Literature Review of 80 publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and covering the period from the first identified publication in 2014 to 2025. The findings reveal that publication growth increased sharply after 2020, particularly following the global pandemic. The results also indicate rapidly expanding and evolving collaborative networks, although the research domain remains conceptually concentrated. The trends highlight a shift from crisis?oriented perspectives toward leadership-driven approaches, digital capacity, social capital, and organizational learning, emphasizing dynamic capability-based perspectives. This study proposes a conceptual framework for future empirical research and provides insights for educational leaders to strengthen institutional resilience in teaching and learning environments.