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Resilience has emerged as a crucial measure of a company’s ability to withstand challenges in the current complex business environment. However, prior research indicates that employee diversity may not consistently lead to a positive impact on corporate resilience. This paper investigates the impact of diversity on resilience in the face of various external crises by examining the performance of Chinese listed companies during the 20-year period following their accession to the World Trade Organization. Employee diversity is operationalized in this study by changes in the number of employees in non-core departments, while resilience is represented by the fluctuation of the stock price minus the industry range fluctuation. Employing a fixed-effect model to analyze 20-year panel data, we find that an increase in employee diversity does not always lead to improved corporate resilience during external crises. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between employee diversity and resilience in the face of different external shocks and explore why diversity may fail to enhance resilience during such circumstances.

Tailings storage facilities (TSFs) are being built globally for containing the chief solid waste stream from mining industry. Catastrophic TSF breach accidents have occurred frequently since the beginning of the 21st century, causing severe impacts on the environment, economy and community safety. The recent example is the 2019 Brumadinho accident in Brazil that released 12 million m3 of tailings and killed more than 249 people. The foreknowledge of the TSF breach run out overland flow can be crucial to prevent or minimize possible losses. Using the Digital Surface Model (DSM) terrain data and the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical method, this study proposed a procedure to predict the routings of hypothetical TSF breach run out flow over downstream complex terrain. A case study of a planning TSF site in Guizhou Province of China was carried out to evaluate its applicability. The results suggested that the maximum routing distance of the TSF breach run out flow was 1.45 km. At 240 s, the run out flow began to impact the downstream viaduct piers with the maximum submerged depth of 3.3 m and the maximum impact force of 21.8 kPa. Essential protective measures were recommended before the TSF site construction. The proposed procedure is then recommended for the safety management of the TSFs globally.

Six welded H-section steel specimens subjected to the axial compressive load, the in-plane shear force and the resulting bending moment around the cross-section major axis are tested monotonically to investigate the elasto-plastic interactive buckling performances of beam-columns. The specimens are designed to fail due to local interactive buckling which is monitored by strain gauges and displacement meters. Strain curves and displacement curves varying with the shear force are illustrated, based on which the local interactive buckling is identified and the ultimate moment capacity of the specimen is extracted. The tests reveal that the local buckling of the web and flange in the compression zone occurs simultaneously resulting in the decrease of the ultimate moment capacity of the specimen. The normalized moment versus rotation curves are illustrated and compared in pairs to investigate the effects of the axial compression ratio, the flange width-thickness ratio and the web height-thickness ratio on the normalized ultimate moment capacity, which is defined as the ratio of the ultimate moment over the plastic moment. It is observed that the normalized ultimate moment capacity decreases remarkably as the axial compression ratio or the flange width-thickness ratio increases, but varies little as the web height-thickness ratio increases.