Dimension and Indicators for Assessing the SMEs Digital Readiness: A Systematic Literature Review

This study aims to look at the bibliometric features and trends of publications on SMEs’ digital readiness indexed in Scopus by authors worldwide and to identify the most critical dimensions and indicators for the assessment. A systematic literature review resulted in 92 publications on SMEs’ digital readiness, published between 2003 and 2022. Finally, based on inclusion/exclusion criteria, this study only used six out of 92 articles published between 2019 and 2022 by four journals to find the dominant dimensions and its indicator. Then, based on the selected articles, this study found ten different dimensions and 59 indicators for assessing the digital readiness in SMEs.