How digital technologies improve supply chain resilience: The mediating role of supply chain transformative capability

To survive and secure more favourable business performance in dynamic environments under disruptions and shocks, supply chains (SCs) have to be resilient. To this regard, academists and practitioners agree that SCs need to develop specific dynamic capabilities and that the adoption of Digital Technologies (DTs) may play as enabling factor. Despite multiple studies on this topic, how DTs can improve SC resilience still requires further investigation. To fill this research gap, we investigate the SC transformative capabilities which can enable SC resilience. By adopting a microfoundational approach, based on dynamic capability theory, we identify the lower-order constructs that underlie SC transformative capabilities and formulate specific propositions on the relationship between them and DTs.