Challenges and Triumphs in Overcoming Adversity: Taking Stock and Looking Forward

 Myriad scientific disciplines have examined how people overcome adversity (i.e., barriers, challenges, difficulties, and misfortune), ranging from the mundane to the traumatic, to find success in their personal and professional lives. The variety of approaches to examining responses to adversity attest to its importance. However, these varied streams of research also pose some challenges to advancing a comprehensive understanding of this area of research. In this proposed panel, we aim to take stock of the research on overcoming adversity as it pertains to individual and collective life in organizations. Bringing together a group of panelists who use a diverse set of approaches to understand this phenomenon, we aim to identify key findings across studies, opportunities for different streams of research to learn from each other, and promising new directions for future research.