Introduction: Covid-19 pandemic as new challenge for regional economic resilience research -- Regional economic resilience: Review and outlook -- The resilience of Britain's core cities to the great recession (with implications for the Covid recessionary shock) -- Regional economic resilience of resource-based cities and influential factors during economic crises in China -- Investigating the governance mechanisms that sustain regional economic resilience and inclusive growth -- Resilience in the periphery: What an agency perspective can bring to the table -- Regional resilience: lessons from a region affected by multiple shocks -- Developing resilience understanding as a tool for regional and tourism development in Bavaria -- Crisis, coping and resilience as a multi-layered process - Haniel, Thyssen and Krupp between the 1950s and the 1970s -- Resilience process framework for inter-organisational cooperation -- Team diversity and development of resilience capabilities in organizations -- Sociolinguistic resilience among young academics: A quantitative analysis in Germany and France.

Leading researchers on economic resilience from economic geography, economic history and organizational studies discuss recent approaches to better understand the impact of structures, processes, agency, governance and multilevel settings on economic resilience. The Editor Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wink: Since 2004 Professor of Economics at the HTWK Leipzig, prior to that Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) and scientific assistant at the German Advisory Council on Global Change. Scientific focuses include economic and social resilience research, regional research and economic geography with a focus on institutional research.