Systematic Mapping Study and Literature Review on Organisational Agility

Agility is a fundamental feature for an organisation that is required to cope VUCA era as an opportunity. Though the agility concept was developed dominantly in information technology industries, many sectors have already applied this concept as well. The importance of agility in the VUCA era could be represented by the growth rate of research studies within the last decade. The urgency of the agility concept leads organisations to recognise what should be prepared immediately to be agile. The purpose of this study was to deliver a systematic mapping study and a literature review on organisation agility. Multiple analysis methods were used to derive the comprehensive findings and research deficiencies in organisation agility. The study started with identifying relevant publications in the Scopus database. The keywords “organisation agility” and “agile organisation” were used to harvest the total 413 publications. Some inclusion-exclusion criteria were applied to derive the final 119 publications to be reviewed. VOSviewer was utilised for visualising and analysing publication trends, then completed a detailed review of all complete 119 publications. The results showed that the organisation agility research areas were vast and had connections with many things where the research areas could be clustered into four. The previous studies highlight the limited focus on assessing organizational agility maturity in current conditions, and future research on how evaluating agility maturity based on organizational requirements will be a good opportunity.