@article{bolek2026explaining,
  title = {Explaining Industry 5.0 Implementation: Organizational Readiness, Perceived Need, and the Enabling Role of Digital Maturity},
  author = {Vladimír BOLEK and Monika SOĽAVOVÁ and Peter BAHNA and Michal ZELINA},
  year = 2026,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JOMS/2026/654947/},
  journal = {Journal of Organizational Management Studies},
  volume = 2026,
  pages = 16,
  doi = doi.org/10.5171/2026.654947,
  abstract = {Industry 5.0 is increasingly framed as a value-oriented model of industrial transformation emphasizing sustainability, resilience, and human-centricity. Despite the growing scholarly interest in this concept, the organizational mechanisms that explain its actual implementation remain insufficiently understood. This study examines the relationships among perceived organizational readiness for Industry 5.0, perceived need for its implementation, digital maturity, and implementation status at the organizational level. The research was conducted as a quantitative cross-sectional study on a sample of 286 organizations operating in Slovakia. Implementation status was operationalized as a composite index based on 18 items, while the analytical strategy combined hierarchical regression, moderated regression, polynomial regression with response surface analysis, and mediation analysis. The findings show that Industry 5.0 implementation is positively associated with both perceived readiness and perceived need, with readiness emerging as the stronger predictor. In addition, readiness significantly moderates the effect of perceived need, indicating that the impact of strategic urgency on implementation is stronger in organizations with higher readiness. The response surface analysis further demonstrates that implementation is not explained by the simple magnitude of the readiness–need gap, but rather by the absolute levels of both constructs and by an asymmetry favoring surplus readiness over surplus need. Moreover, digital maturity contributes incremental explanatory power and exerts a partially indirect effect on implementation through perceived readiness. The study contributes to the Industry 5.0 literature by moving beyond a simple gap logic and showing that implementation is better understood as a capacity-conditioned process supported by digital maturity and shaped by the interplay of readiness and perceived need.},
  keywords = {Industry 5.0; organizational readiness; perceived need; digital maturity},
  note = Article ID: 654947
}