Resilience is a topic which has aroused extensive discussions in literature focused on organization and management research. However, a consensus on the definition of resilience has not been achieved due to some subtle divergence when scholars construe resilience from different perspective. In this paper, we explain why resilience barged to the forefront when risk management in organization and management research has already achieved great success in coping with factors leading to undesirable outcomes and compare connotations of resilience in different paper based on an overview of previous research on organizational resilience and supply chain resilience respectively, then we detect those divergences that prevent resilience from becoming a consistent construct and provide a comprehensive definition of resilience. With this study, we aim to develop a clearer concept that can act as a foundation for future empirical work.