In many industries, future demand is driven by past sales, and the inability to sell today can decrease future market size. While the dependence of demand on sales has been addressed in several streams of Operations literature, such a setting has not been studied in the disruptions literature....

We offer the notion of ‘commons’ at different levels — within company, private across company, and gov- ernment sponsored across industry sectors — and discuss how the creation of such commons enabled firms to be both efficient during normal times and resilient against the disruptions...