The Influence of Strategic Agility on Organizational Performance during Pandemic: A Perspective of SMEs in Manufacturing Sector

Abstract

This research aimed to express the importance of strategic agility on organizational performance during the pandemic era, which demands organizations to strategically respond promptly to the uncertain and unexpected changes in the business environment. As many as 149 responses from a cross-sectional survey among SMEs in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia were then analyzed by using SPSS version 24 and PLS-SEM. The results reveal that strategic agility significantly influences organizational performance. The dimension of strategic agility and research conceptual framework was chosen and formulated based on the Dynamic Capability Theory. The empirical analysis and conceptual framework generate some important contributions to academicians, practitioners, and policy-makers in the strategic-agility area to support the organizational performance of SMEs in the manufacturing sector during a pandemic.