Jul 2026· Studi Ilmu Manajemen dan Organisasi· Vol 7, pp. 411-424· 0 citations
Abstract
Purpose: This study systematically examines the relationships among organizational innovation, organizational sustainability, competitive advantage, and Micro, Small, And Medium Enterprise (MSME) performance from a Resource Based View (RBV) perspective. It addresses a research gap by integrating these four constructs into a single conceptual framework, as previous studies have predominantly examined them separately or through limited variable relationships.Research Methodology: A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted using the PRISMA 2020 protocol. The study reviewed 68 peer-reviewed articles published between 2015 and 2025 from Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Data were analyzed through narrative synthesis, thematic clustering, and gap analysis.Results: The findings show that organizational innovation has the strongest positive relationship with MSME performance, while organizational sustainability also contributes significantly. Competitive advantage acts as a mediating mechanism, although its effect varies across different business contexts. Limited studies integrating all constructs indicate a research gap.Conclusions: The review confirms RBV as a relevant foundation for explaining MSME performance through innovation, sustainability, and competitive advantage.Limitations: This study is limited to secondary data from peer-reviewed publications between 2015 and 2025, which may affect broader generalization.Contributions: This study provides an integrated RBV-based framework and future research directions for strengthening MSME competitiveness and sustainability.
The purpose of this systematic literature review is to extract and synthesize findings of research papers published in high-quality journals to address our specific research questions, find gaps and propose future research agendas. We want to understand the mechanisms by which digital innovation adoption (DIA) and digital transformation (DT) help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) achieve competitive advantage and enhance operational performance, ultimately leading to sustainable competitive advantage (SCA).
Fifty-nine studies were selected following the extended PRISMA guidelines as the methodological framework.
Four key themes have been generated based on thematic analysis of selected studies, which further helped us to find research gaps, implications and future research scopes.
DIA can enhance competitive advantage by business model innovation, strategic agility, resilience and foundational organizational capabilities in SMEs. Also, improve operational performance by process management, supply chain optimization and increasing employee productivity. Also, marketing orientation has been used as a complementary lens along with strategic and operational perspectives. The existing literature has not extensively addressed how these viewpoints can be integrated to create an SCA for SMEs. To address this gap, we developed an integrated conceptual framework with the help of key findings and propositions that emerged from the selected studies. We concluded the study by providing propositions for future empirical testing.
Koustav Dakshit, Sachin Modgil, Rohan Mukherjee et al.· The TQM Journal· 0 citations
Objective – This study seeks to elucidate how Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) advances organizational sustainability in the digital era, with particular emphasis on identifying the principal organizational and behavioral mechanisms by which this contribution is realized.
Design/Methodology/Approach – This study employs a systematic literature review (SLR) using the PRISMA framework. Through the identification, screening, eligibility, and inclusion stages, 18 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2021 and 2026 were selected for analysis.
Findings – GHRM contributes to organizational sustainability through green innovation, employee green behavior, environmental commitment, and employee engagement. Green innovation emerged as the dominant mediating mechanism, while digital transformation strengthened sustainability outcomes by supporting innovation, knowledge sharing, and sustainability-oriented decision-making.
Implications – The study concludes that organizational sustainability is achieved through the interaction of GHRM, green innovation, employee behavioral mechanisms, and digital transformation. Future research should develop more integrated models to explain these relationships.
Selly Aulia Margareta, Roby Sambung, Desha Delpia et al.· Jurnal Manajemen Sains dan O...· 0 citations
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) increasingly need to reconfigure how they create, deliver, and capture value in response to digitalisation, sustainability demands, and environmental uncertainty. This study systematically reviews 162 English-language articles published in SSCI-indexed journals to integrate fragmented research on business model innovation (BMI) in SMEs. Descriptive analysis, keyword co-occurrence analysis, and article-level qualitative content analysis are combined. The findings identify four broad knowledge domains and show that 41 studies treat BMI primarily as an outcome, 44 as an organisational process, 17 as an antecedent of subsequent outcomes, and 36 as part of a combined causal relationship; a further 24 studies are descriptive or typological. Across these roles, the literature explains BMI through resource mobilisation, entrepreneurial action logics, absorptive and dynamic capabilities, experimentation, and network mobilisation. Its effects on performance, growth, resilience, internationalisation, and sustainability depend on complementary resources, implementation capabilities, stakeholder alignment, and environmental conditions. The evidence supports an adaptive and iterative interpretation of SME BMI, but direct evidence of recursive feedback remains limited. Resource constraints also have conditional effects, stimulating bricolage and focused experimentation in some circumstances while inhibiting substantive change when shortages become severe. The review provides an integrative synthesis specific to SMEs and advances digital business model innovation research by explaining how digital pressures are translated into changes in value proposition, value creation and delivery, and value capture through organisational and relational mechanisms.
Bi Zhang, Nurul Atasha Jamaludin, Shanshan Yue et al.· Future Business Journal· 0 citations
Digital innovation has become a key enabler of the circular economy, yet existing research on SMEs remains fragmented across technological, organizational, and institutional perspectives. This study addresses this gap through a bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review of 87 peer-reviewed articles published between 2017 and 2025. The review synthesizes the evolution of digital research, identifies its theoretical foundations, key barriers, enabling factors, and performance outcomes, and develops a multi-level conceptual framework linking micro-, meso-, macro-, and ecosystem-level perspectives. The findings suggest that successful digital innovation-enabled circular transformation depends on the interaction of digital capabilities, organizational resources, institutional support, and stakeholder collaboration. The study further reveals that financial constraints, limited digital capabilities, and weak institutional support remain major barriers, whereas Industry 4.0 technologies, leadership commitment, and ecosystem collaboration serve as critical enablers. By integrating fragmented theoretical perspectives into a coherent framework, this review advances the understanding of digital adoption in SMEs and provides a structured research agenda together with practical implications for managers and policymakers seeking to accelerate sustainable digital transformation.
Yi-Jun Cheng, Umar H. A. Kohar· Sustainability· 0 citations
This study conducts a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of 41 peer-reviewed empirical articles to synthesize evidence on how human resource (HR) capability and marketing capability interact with technology to produce competitive advantage in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 2020 (PRISMA 2020) protocol, the review draws on Scopus-indexed articles published between 2017 and 2026, spanning 19 countries, with 87.8% of studies originating from developing economies. The synthesis is interpreted through an integrated Resource-Based Theory and Dynamic Capabilities framework. Three principal findings emerge. First, a complementarity thesis is substantiated: HR capability and marketing capability are mutually reinforcing resources whose combined configurations produce competitive outcomes exceeding what either resource achieves independently, with market orientation as the most consistently confirmed antecedent of competitive advantage. Second, technology is predominantly framed as an enabling resource in 87.8% of the included studies, yet three coexisting framings are identified: technology as an organizational resource, as an environmental moderator, and as a dynamic reconfiguration process, reflecting unresolved theoretical pluralism in the field. Third, despite Indonesia accounting for 34.1% of the corpus, East Java, as a provincial MSME ecosystem with 1.12 million enterprises, remains effectively absent from the synthesized literature, constituting a critical gap for future research. The review contributes a complementary thesis and a typology of technology framings as theoretical advances, with practical implications for integrated capability-building policy targeting East Java MSMEs.
M. Musadieq, E. K. Aini, Hanifa MaulaniRamadhan, et al.· INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOC...· 0 citations
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a central role in employment generation, innovation diffusion, local economic dynamism, and sustainable development. However, research on SME success remains fragmented, often emphasizing isolated determinants rather than integrated explanations. This study maps the scientific landscape of SME success factors from a configurational perspective, considering how strategic orientations, organizational capabilities, implementation practices, and contextual conditions interact to shape business performance.
A bibliometric and science mapping study was conducted using records retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science. The search covered publications indexed between 1985 and 2025 and was conducted on February 4, 2025. After duplicate removal, title and abstract screening, and full-text assessment following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, 935 studies were included in the final corpus. Data were processed and analyzed using R and VOSviewer. The analysis included publication trends, citation patterns, productive journals, highly cited documents, keyword co-occurrence, co-authorship networks, co-citation structures, and bibliographic coupling.
The findings show a progressive consolidation of SME success research, with accelerated growth from 2016 onward. The most influential research streams are centered on entrepreneurial orientation, critical success factors, operational excellence, innovation, digital transformation, sustainability, green innovation, and circular economy practices. The intellectual structure of the field is supported by strategic management, entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability literatures. International collaboration patterns reveal an expanding but unevenly distributed research network, with several countries acting as central knowledge hubs.
The evidence suggests that SME success cannot be adequately explained through single-factor or linear approaches. Instead, it should be understood as a multidimensional and contingent phenomenon shaped by configurations of internal capabilities, strategic choices, implementation processes, and external environmental conditions. This study provides an integrated map of the field and offers a foundation for future theoretical development, comparative empirical research, and policy design aimed at strengthening competitive and sustainable SME performance.
Ely Israel Borja-Salinas, R. Robalino-Muñiz, Evelyn Arteaga-Arcentales et al.· Frontiers in Sustainability· 0 citations