The influence of COVID-19 on the adoption of disruptive technologies in SMEs practices: UAE context

Alkaraan, Fadi, Al Mulla, Anas and Darwish, Tamer K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1815-9338 (2025) The influence of COVID-19 on the adoption of disruptive technologies in SMEs practices: UAE context. In: From Digital Disruption to Dominance (Technological Innovation and Sustainability for Business Competitive Advantage). Technological Innovation and Sustainability for Business Competitive Advantage . Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 299-311. ISBN https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83549-608-420251015

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Abstract

Disruptive technologies (DTs) becoming pivotal issues towards successful business innovation strategies. DTs are the emerging technologies that result due to change in the cost of how we access products and services. DTs offer small-medium enterprises (SMEs) a wide range of advantages including improved productivity, value addition to the business, and improve the performance delivery to the end users. Organizations’ digital readiness and future research topics should also address the effect of technology on ethics like data privacy and identifying algorithmic bias, as well as sustainable digital business transformation initiatives outside the crisis phase. The chapter sheds lights on the socio-economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the adoption of DTs in SMEs’ accounting practices in UAE. Adoption of AI, cloud solutions, mobile accounting, and robotic process automation of accounting are valuable and crucial instruments in relation to the absence of business continuity; their application contributes to remote work as well as increases efficiency. These technologies made it possible for SMEs to counter quick shocks in the market and supply changes, besides helping to cope with fluctuating cash flows. It was established that those companies that managed to adopt digitalization strategies in the organisation were in a better place to deal with the effects caused by the pandemic. The results also pointed to a strong influence of an external environment concerning the implementation of DTs by policy makers and market forces.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Disruptive Technologies; SMEs innovation; Business innovation; Accounting; Technological innovation; UAE
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Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Tamer Darwish
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2025 10:18
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2025 13:15
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14869

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