Effects of Firm-Level Entrepreneurship Orientation on Digital Transformation in SMEs: The Moderating Role of Strategic Agility

IF 2 4区管理学 Q3 BUSINESS

Entrepreneurship Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI:10.1515/erj-2023-0267

Mir Shahid Satar, Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani, Ghadah Alarifi

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Abstract

The study investigates the effects of firm-level entrepreneurship orientation (EO) dimensions of innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness on digital transformation (DT) in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) while considering their interactions with the organization’s strategic agility. The study hypothesizes that all three firm-level EO dimensions are positively associated with DT within SMEs and that strategic agility positively moderates this effect. The study’s data came from a survey of 122 Saudi SMEs, where digitalization has recently emerged as a potential approach to transforming SMEs. The data analysis results from Smart PLS 3.0 provide complete support for the hypotheses. The study is one of the first to investigate the firm-level EO in the context of DT and provides implications for strategizing the SME’s DT by capitalizing on the firm’s EO intensity. As a result, the study contributes to entrepreneurship and management research vis-à-vis the current digitalization discourse.

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企业级创业导向对中小企业数字化转型的影响：战略敏捷性的调节作用

本研究探讨了企业层面的创业导向（EO）维度--创新性、冒险性和主动性--对中小企业数字化转型（DT）的影响，同时考虑了它们与组织战略敏捷性之间的相互作用。研究假设，企业层面的所有三个 EO 维度都与中小型企业的数字化转型正相关，而战略敏捷性则对这一影响起到积极的调节作用。本研究的数据来自对 122 家沙特中小企业的调查，数字化最近已成为中小企业转型的一种潜在方法。Smart PLS 3.0 的数据分析结果完全支持上述假设。本研究是首批对企业层面的数字化转型中的企业运营进行调查的研究之一，并通过利用企业的企业运营强度为中小企业的数字化转型战略提供了启示。因此，相对于当前的数字化讨论，本研究有助于创业和管理研究。

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Entrepreneurship Research Journal BUSINESS-

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

21.10%

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期刊介绍： Entrepreneurship Research Journal (ERJ) was launched with an Inaugural Issue in 2011. Professor Ramona Zachary at Baruch College and Professor Chandra Mishra at Florida Atlantic University introduce a new forum for scholarly discussion on entrepreneurs and their activities, contexts, processes, strategies, and outcomes. Positioned as the premier new research journal within the field of entrepreneurship, ERJ seeks to encourage a scholarly exchange between researchers from any field of study who focus on entrepreneurs, and will include both theoretical and empirical articles, with priority being given to high quality theoretical and empirical papers that have managerial or public policy orientation as well as ramifications for entrepreneurship research overall. Topics: -Research Modeling, Design, and Methods: entrepreneurship theories and conceptualizations, entrepreneurship research methods. -The Individuals-Opportunities-Resources Nexus: nascent entrepreneurs, opportunity recognition, drivers of value creation, and emergence, innovation and technology entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial risk and reward, entrepreneurial cognition and behavior. -Inclusive of Near Environments: family entrepreneurship, networks, teams and alliances, venture capital and angel investor groups, entrepreneurial communities, hubs, clusters and public policy, social entrepreneurship. -Distinct Entrepreneurial Stage or Setting: entrepreneurial growth and strategy, boards, governance and leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, international and emerging market entrepreneurship.