Unravelling Strategic Agility: A Meta-analytical Study of its Key Components

In today's rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment, organizations are increasingly confronted with complex challenges, disruptive innovations, and heightened levels of uncertainty.The need to respond quickly and effectively to these dynamic shifts has brought the concept of 'strategic agility' to the forefront as a critical organizational capability.Strategic agility refers to an organization's capacity to anticipate, adapt, and reconfigure its strategies and resources proactively in order to sustain growth and competitiveness.Despite its growing importance, the existing literature presents fragmented perspectives on its core components and outcomes.This paper adopts a 'meta-analytical approach' to synthesize prior research and provide a systematic, evidence-based understanding of strategic agility.The results indicate that factors such as leadership orientation, dynamic capabilities, organizational learning, and innovation practices play a central role in fostering agility.Importantly, the analysis reveals a consistent positive relationship between strategic agility and both 'competitive advantage' and 'firm performance', underscoring its role in sustaining organizational resilience and long-term success.The findings contribute to both theory and practice by offering a consolidated framework of strategic agility and its determinants.For scholars, the study clarifies conceptual ambiguities and advances the discourse on agility in strategic management.For practitioners, it provides actionable insights into the design of agile structures, processes, and mindsets that enhance long-term organizational resilience and success.