“…While extant research has explored the importance of DT (Verhoef et al, 2021;Vial, 2019;Wessel, Baiyere, Ologeanu-Taddei, Cha, & Blegind-Jensen, 2020;Kutzner et al, 2018), senior executives' perceptions of DT (Brock & von Wangenheim, 2019) and employees' perceptions of DT in their organizations (Cetindamar, Abedin, & Shirahada, 2021;Solberg, Traavik, & Wong, 2020), there lacks a thorough understanding of the disconnect in the perceptions of senior executives and managers or employees on the preparedness of an organization. Given DT preparedness the disconnect between the perceptions of front-line employees and entry and mid-level managers with those of senior executives (Buvat et al, 2017) that continues to create challenges for successfully implementing DT initiatives, it is important that research try to understand what entry and mid-level managers and front-line employees believe in the context of DT preparedness of an organization.…”