Table 15.

Theories utilised in implication of implementing theme

Theory/model/paradigm	Citations
Agency theory	Chaudhuri et al. (2021), Tan et al. (2022a)
Dynamic capability view (DCV)	Sheel and Nath (2019), Benzidia et al. (2021), Kusi-Sarpong et al. (2022)
Fuzzy set theory	Ozdemir et al. (2020),
Game theory	Choi (2019), De Giovanni (2020), Guo et al. (2020), Hayrutdinov et al. (2020), Bai et al. (2021), Niu et al. (2021a, 2021b), Xu et al. (2021b), Xu and Choi (2021), Yu et al. (2021), Liu (2022), Tao et al. (2022), Wu and Yu (2022), Xu and Duan (2022), Li et al. (2022a), Yang et al. (2022)
Grounded theory	Qian and Papadonikolaki (2021)
Information processing theory (IPT)	Martinez et al. (2019),
Institutional theory (IT)	Tan et al. (2022a)
Mean-risk theory	Choi (2020),
Network theory (NT)	Paul et al. (2021), Tan et al. (2022b)
Organizational information processing theory (OIPT)	Dubey et al. (2020)
Pattern matching theory	Kshetri (2021)
Principal-agent theory (PAT)	Xing et al. (2021), L. Liu et al. (2021)
Relational view (RV)	Dubey et al. (2020), Qian and Papadonikolaki (2021), Tan et al. (2022b)
Resource based view (RBV)	Martinez et al. (2019), Sheel and Nath (2019), Nandi et al. (2020), Paul et al. (2021),
Transaction cost economics (TCE)	Roeck et al. (2020),
Signaling theory	Treiblmaier and Garaus (2022)
Social exchange theory	Wang et al. (2021b)
System dynamics	Mangla et al. (2021),
Systems theory	Zelbst et al. (2020)