Saarivirta T. (2009). Building self-renewal capacity for future growth and adaptation. Global Academic Society Journal: Social Science Insight, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 16-40. ISSN 2029-0365. [www.ScholarArticles.net] Download/print: *.pdf. Author: dr. Toni Saarivirta, University of Tampere, Finland Abstract This paper adopts the point of view that a crisis will face a person, organisation, region or country at some point