Resilience and organizational performance of port enterprises in the face of the covid-19 crisis[Resilience Et Performance Organisationnelle Des Entreprises Portuaires Face A La Crise De La Covid-19]

Companies are facing an unprecedented health crisis that affects their survival and structuring. Companies are forced to reinvent themselves and be creative. To do so, they must turn threat into opportunity, become more resilient and ensure better organizational performance. his article aims to evaluate the effects of resilient abilities of public port enterprises in the face of covid-19 on their organizational performance. This article is analytical in a hypothetical-deductive logic. The data were collected by questionnaire from one hundred and eighty-three actors of the Beninese public port enterprises. Three statistical tools were used to analyze the data collected: the flat sort, the chi-square inference test and the Logit and multinomial Logit models. The results show that the renewal capacity of public port enterprises in the covid-19 challenge has strengthened their organizational legitimacy. The proactivity of port actors in the face of the covid-19 crisis has improved the competitiveness of public enterprises in the sector. The ownership capacity of port public enterprises during covid-19 strengthened their performance.