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Our lecture series on “Antwerp Crisis Conversations” explores and addresses the challenges we face in an era where organizations' environments are marked by increasingly complex crises, transcending traditional borders and sectors. The intricate nature of contemporary crises requires collaborations beyond conventional crisis management; they demand adaptive governance within and between organizations to deal with crises as unfolding emergent processes rather than effectively responding to and absorbing shocks in extreme situations.

We are excited to invite you to the next thought-provoking on Tuesday, November 17: "Key Drivers that Shape Investments in Organizational Resilience" by . 

Reserve your seat by e-mailing chair.crisisgovernance@uantwerpen.be 

Tuesday, 17 November 2026

Time: 17:00 – 19:00

Location: University of Antwerp, City Campus (Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp), Room S.B.203

“Key Drivers that Shape Investments in Organizational Resilience”

Speaker: Indy De Mulder

Few organizations would argue that resilience does not matter. Yet deciding what to invest in, when, and how much is enough remains a real puzzle. Unlike investments in efficiency, resilience rarely shows a visible return: its value lies in the disruption that never happens or the damage that is avoided. So how do organizations justify spending money, time and attention on capabilities that may only prove their worth when something goes wrong?

In this edition of the Antwerp Crisis Conversations, Indy De Mulder presents the findings of her master’s thesis on this resilience investment dilemma. Based on 18 interviews with 21 senior professionals from large, supply chain dependent companies active in Belgium, and drawing on Duchek’s capability-based view of resilience, she examines how organizations understand resilience, what brings it onto the management agenda, which forms resilience investments take, and how companies judge whether they have done enough. One striking finding: attention to resilience rises with cyber threats, regulation and recent crises, but easily fades once conditions improve. The central challenge, she argues, is not a lack of awareness, but making resilience concrete enough to prioritize, valuable enough to justify and measurable enough to sustain investment. Expect an open discussion with ample room for experiences from practice.

Indy De Mulder is a Master student of "Organization and Management" at the University of Antwerp. She wrote her master’s thesis with the Chair of Crisis Governance in collaboration with PwC’s Resilience and Business Continuity team, focusing on what drives investments in organizational resilience in supply chain intensive companies.