Adaptive Capacity in Education
Keywords:
adaptive capacity, educational organizations, organizational capabilities, educational bricolage, relational infrastructure, quality culture, institutional legitimacyAbstract
Educational organizations are being asked to do more with less while navigating increasingly complex expectations. This editorial conceptualizes adaptive capacity in education as the organizational ability to sustain purposeful action amid resource scarcity, relational interdependence, quality pressures, and institutional plurality. Synthesizing five complementary theoretical perspectives, it shows how adaptation emerges through resource recombination, relational infrastructure, strategic quality capability, cultural institutionalization, and legitimacy navigation. Together, these mechanisms reveal adaptation not as episodic reaction, but as a recursive process through which educational organizations build, renew, and sustain organizational capability under complexity.
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