The success of IT projects of DT is an essential for enhancing the performance and resilience of SMEs (Kala Kamdjoug, 2024)

Digitalisation is one of the critical sources factors of resilience (Eriksson et al., 2022)

AI forecasts digital innovation through adaptive resilience; family-owned SMEs intend to adopt AI, but SMEs face challenges using IoT edge (Saleem et al., 2023)

Level of investment in adopting innovations, digitalisation, and sustainability affects a company's growth; The “training” factor is more relevant than human capital expressed by academic training (Avelar et al., 2024)

Low digitalisation is the weaknesses of SMEs that become the main obstacles to resilience in this crisis (Iancu et al., 2022)

International knowledge, personal drivers and digital transformation are determined to be the most important cause factors (Razavi Hajiagha et al., 2024)

Digital business transformation significantly impacts frugal innovation and SMEs' resilience in emerging markets; Organisational learning significantly impacts digital business transformation, frugal innovation and SMEs' resilience (Al Omoush et al., 2025)

Entrepreneurial ventures that adopted digital technologies and had access to loans increased their performance and survival during the COVID-19 pandemic, those who failed in these aspects experienced negative performance and survival effects (Gambirage et al., 2023)

The implementation of digital tools and networking opportunities improved the perceived economic performance of the enterprise during crises (Apostolopoulos et al., 2024)

The adoption of digital technologies favours the competitiveness, resilience, and internationalisation of firms (Holl and Rama, 2024)

The unfavourable circumstance (like: catastrophic sales decline) can be effectively resolved when SMEs incorporate mobile money into their daily business (Nan and Park, 2022)

Pandemic-driven digital transformation of retailing has lasting effects on offline SMEs (Xu et al., 2024)

Digital selling platforms positively affect exports, whereas public procurement negatively affects F&B SMEs exports (Ballerini et al., 2023)

Openness to Industry 4.0 has a positive and significant direct effect on a perceived production recovery in the short term (within 2021) and medium term (within 2022 and 2023) (Cugno et al., 2022)

The weaknesses of SME (such as their limited liquidity, human resources, digitalisation, and use of information technology) are the principal obstacle to a resilient response to this crisis (Rodrigues et al., 2021)

Critical sources factors, essential, determined, lasting effect, principal obstacle (negative term), failed – negative performance