Beyond the Hyper-Connected Society: Forging Resilient and Adaptive Organisations for a Post-Society 5.0 Era – A Review and Personal Insights
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The Society 5.0 idea, from Japan, imagines a human-centred, very smart society that uses tech integration in order to address social and economic problems. Even if it looks like a real step forward compared to the earlier industrial modes (Societies 1.0 to 4.0), it is becoming harder to ignore that the emphasis on optimization and tight connectivity might not be enough, when the world starts behaving like it is stacking risks on top of risks. Think about climate disruptions, geopolitical breaks, and pandemics, all at once, and suddenly. This review article basically argues that the next evolutionary move for organizations isn’t only about being “smarter”, but about building real resilience and adaptive capability, something that goes beyond the technology-centred mindset often linked to Society 5.0. Using a systematic review of the literature across organizational theory, complexity science, and strategic management, the paper spells out why the Society 5.0 framing can feel limited inside a VUCA environment (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). It also follows a kind of storyline from hunter-gatherer arrangements (Society 1.0) to information-focused setups (Society 4.0), showing that each step solved some issues, while it quietly produced new weak points. The heart of the article proposes a multi-dimensional blueprint for organizations, so they can stay effective but also become antifragile, meaning they can actually do better when conditions get rough. This blueprint pulls together cognitive, strategic, technological, and cultural pillars, in a way that sounds neat but also feels necessary. In the end, the conclusion suggests that in the next decades, the biggest competitive edge will belong to organizations that learn, adjust, and regenerate faster than environmental change itself. So the future isn’t only about smarter systems, it is about a new resilience-based way of organizing, and trying to keep it going even when everything else is wobbling a bit.
Author: PAL, ROHIT
Institution: Adamas University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7171474370
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