This study develops an integrated resource orchestration framework to examine how internal resource configurations shape entrepreneurial resilience in new ventures under crisis conditions. Specifically, we focus on bundles of social and technological resource slack and constraints and conceptualize entrepreneurial resilience as comprising two dimensions: stability (severity of loss) and flexibility (time to recovery). We argue that stability is primarily driven by a resource compensation logic, whereas flexibility is driven by a crisis-induced resource reconfiguration logic. Extending resource orchestration theory (ROT), we conceptualize entrepreneurial teams as the central actors of resource orchestration and introduce entrepreneurial team task-related faultlines (ETTF) as a key structural mechanism shaping how effectively resources are mobilized under disruption. Using a sample of 345 Chinese listed new ventures, we find that dual resource slack reduces severity of loss but slows recovery, whereas among constrained bundles, social resource slack combined with technological constraints enables both lower loss and faster recovery. Response surface analyses further show that greater misalignment between social and technological resources increases loss severity but shortens recovery time. In addition, ETTF moderates the effects of resource bundles on resilience outcomes by strengthening both compensatory coordination and reconfiguration capacity. This study advances ROT by showing that internal resource configurations shape entrepreneurial resilience through both bundle composition and misalignment, contingent on team structural conditions.
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