Digital disruption has become a persistent condition of contemporary business rather than an exceptional crisis event. Firms now confront cyber incidents, platform failures, data integrity problems, supply chain shocks, algorithmic dependencies, and rapid shifts in digital markets. These disruptions challenge not only operational continuity but also the strategic capacity of organizations to maintain direction, value creation, and stakeholder confidence. The literature on resilience has expanded significantly, yet digital business resilience remains conceptually fragmented. Studies of organizational agility, data governance, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and business continuity often develop in parallel rather than as an integrated body of work. This fragmentation limits the ability of scholars and managers to understand how digital resilience is actually produced across interconnected systems. This critical review examines digital business resilience through four interdependent pillars: organizational agility, data governance, cyber risk management, and strategic continuity. It argues that resilience should not be reduced to rapid response, technical recovery, or compliance-based continuity planning. Instead, digital business resilience is better understood as a systemic capability that enables firms to anticipate, absorb, respond to, recover from, and adapt to digitally mediated disruptions. The review concludes that digital business resilience emerges from alignment rather than from isolated investment in tools, controls, or agile routines. Organizations need governance architectures that connect adaptive responsiveness with reliable data, cyber preparedness, and strategic discipline. A critical and integrative perspective is therefore essential for future research and managerial practice.
Institute for Management, Business, and Accounting Studies