Track: Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have an important role in the economic growth of a country. In global competition, SMEs need to have a digital transformation view to increasing competitiveness in the Industry 4.0 era. The purpose of this study is to present a comprehensive knowledge map of digital transformation in SMEs around the world based on the Scopus database. The analysis was carried out over a while of more than a decade, between 2005 – 2020, and obtained 219 academic documents. This research reveals an overview of article publications, author productivity, organization, country, sources of publications, maps of research themes, and collaborative relationships between researchers. This research contributes to the development of knowledge-based on the mapping of digital transformation research themes in SMEs, namely Industry, Competition, Information, Digitalization, hereinafter referred to as ICID map.