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Digital disruption has become a persistent condition of contemporary business rather than an exceptional event. Firms face cybersecurity risks, platform shifts, supply-chain volatility, workforce reconfiguration, data overload, and rapid changes in customer behaviour. These pressures require resilience capabilities that are explicitly suited to digital environments. Existing resilience research has clarified how organizations anticipate, absorb, recover from, and adapt to disruption. However, digital business resilience requires more than general robustness or crisis response. It depends on the capacity to use digital systems, strategic flexibility, and human adaptability as mutually reinforcing sources of continuity and renewal. This article develops an original Digital Business Resilience Framework. The framework integrates three pillars: strategic agility, workforce adaptability, and data-driven decision infrastructure. It argues that resilience emerges when these pillars interact as a coherent system rather than operating as separate managerial initiatives. The central contribution is to reposition digital business resilience as a triadic capability. Strategic agility enables rapid direction-setting, workforce adaptability enables human execution under uncertainty, and data-driven decision infrastructure enables timely sensemaking and coordinated action. Together, these elements help firms anticipate disruption, withstand shocks, recover operationally, and reconfigure for future competitiveness

Digital businesses operate in an environment where competitive advantage increasingly depends on the ability to respond to technological disruption, shifting customer expectations, ecosystem instability, cyber threats, and operational shocks. Resilience in this context cannot be reduced to recovery after disruption, because digital firms must also anticipate risk, adapt strategically, and preserve continuity across interdependent technological and organizational systems. Existing resilience frameworks remain fragmented. Some emphasize agility and dynamic capability development, while others focus on cybersecurity, platform strategy, business continuity, or organizational learning as separate domains. This fragmentation limits understanding of how digital businesses actually withstand disruption when market responsiveness, platform dependence, cyber exposure, and learning capacity interact simultaneously. This article develops the Digital Business Resilience Framework as an original conceptual framework for explaining resilience in digital business. The framework integrates four co-equal pillars: strategic agility, platform dependence awareness, cyber risk management, and organizational learning. It argues that resilience emerges when these pillars mutually reinforce one another rather than when they are managed as isolated capabilities. The framework contributes to digital business and resilience scholarship by shifting attention from isolated adaptive responses to systemic resilience architecture. It also offers managers a diagnostic lens for identifying weak points in digital business resilience and for designing integrated practices that connect agility, platform governance, cyber preparedness, and learning routines.