Organizational Agility: A Systematic Literature Review

As a strategy that a firm can enhance its capability to survive managing the ever-changing market conditions and successfully handling the uncertain and emerging entrepreneurial opportunities is called the Organizational Agility. However, there is still little attention given by scholars on organizational agility in strategic management research. Therefore, this study has been conducted to identify the factors influence on organizational agility. Also, the study synthesized the empirical studies on organizational agility to understand the areas that can be addressed further in future research. The systematic literature review approach was applied in this study based on the guidelines given by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). Following several predetermined inclusion criteria, 276 articles from the Scopus database were considered for the study. The study was able to identify four main clusters/areas that determine the robustness on organizational agility literature namely, strategic agility and technology, agile capabilities and performance, technology and competitive advantages, and innovation through Knowledge and Learning which have been investigated in last two decades. Additionally, the study observed that entrepreneurial orientation, employee empowerment, intellectual capital, dynamic capabilities, industry 4.0, business model innovation, outsourcing, IT spending, and resource orchestration needed to be further investigated and researched. This study provides a more robust understanding of organizational agility literature for scholars, policy makers and practitioners in their decision making. Future researchers are urged to conduct studies on the areas where the study identifies new research is needed.