Resilience Supremacy as a Contemporary Strategic Challenge in Cluster Management

Abstract

This theoretical and practical article focuses on the characteristics of resilience supremacy in cluster management. It consists of four logically interconnected parts, which address the idea of cluster resilience, its strategic importance for ensuring cluster stability in the face of changing global conditions, including the pandemic crisis, as well as selected experiences and best practices in shaping this resilience in one of the National Key Clusters. The research included literature analysis, desk research and a case study approach. The scientific considerations presented in this article emphasize that the contemporary approach to cluster resilience treats this category not only as an important attribute, but primarily as a dynamic process of predicting, forecasting and anticipating disruptive environmental changes (the so-called disruptions), actively responding to these changes and efficiently rebuilding,
reorganising and reorienting clusters. In the context of the pandemic crisis, many clusters which proactively took care of various protective factors demonstrated their ability to both survive and creatively strengthen their competitiveness in the national and international space.