Digital Transformation and Competitive Sustainability: The Role of Digital Transformational Leadership and Organizational Agility in Building Viksit Bharat

Abstract

India is on its way to become a developed economy between USD 30-40 trillion by 2047, which marks 100 years of Independence, through an emphasis on building resilient foundations of competitive sustainability within both private and public sectors. This chapter explores how Digital Transformation Leadership (DTL) and Organizational Agility (OA) can serve as primary catalysts for that national goal. Using insights from Resource Based View (RBV) and Dynamic Capabilities Theory, we will establish a structural framework for evaluating the way India’s technological assets (digital public infrastructure (DPI)) develop into sustained economic advantages. Through the application of Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), the framework establishes that while raw digital infrastructure alone will not deliver sustained economic advantage without organizational adaptability strategic mediation by both organizational (adaptability) and visionary digital leadership there are systemic barriers (structural inertia and digital inequity) to implementing raw digital infrastructure. Actionable recommendations are provided to facilitate engineering of a digitally sovereign agile India.