Financial resources and their impact on the organizational resilience as a business family sustainability strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on Ecuadorian family business. More than 35% of organizations were temporarily shut down, while other15% of them were permanently closed. Companies should adopt the organizational resilience as their business strategy to guarantee a long-term viability. Organizational resilience refers to the ability of a company to return to a stable stateafter an unexpected disruption to generate business sustainability. Financial resources are beneficial for organizational resilience due to the reason that a financialslack can absorb initial financial and material losses in times of adversity. This studyfocuses on knowing the impact of financial resources on organizational resilience as a business sustainability strategy in the context of the Ecuadorian family business.