Determinants of Digital Transformation: The Role of Internationalization and Managerial Education

Digital transformation (DT) is increasingly critical for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) but adoption and outcomes remain uneven across firms. This poster paper positions DT as an organizational and information-systems phenomenon and proposes an integrative framing – aligned with Theme A (OMIS: Organizational Models and Information Systems) – to synthesize determinants of DT in SMEs. Two drivers that are often examined separately are emphasized; (I) SME internationalization as contextual/environmental determinant shaping pressures, opportunities, and learning; and (II) manager’s university education as a human-capital determinant shaping decision quality, digital mindset, and orchestration capability. Based on integrative lens combining technology-organization-environment reasoning, technology-adoption arguments, and resource-based view (RBV) logic, the study formulates a set of propositions linking internationalization, resource availability, managerial education, and DT. Methodologically, we outline a structured literature review protocol using Scopus and Web of Science, with an extraction matrix capturing DT operationalization, study contexts, measurements of internationalization and education, control variables, and reported effects. Expected contributions include an evidence map of determinants, clearer mechanism -based explanations for heterogeneous findings, and identification of methodological gaps that limits comparability and cumulability in OMIS-oriented DT research.