Sri Bramantoro Abdinagoro

Type of the article: Research Article

Abstract
Entrepreneurs in Indonesia’s emerging electric two-wheeler industry struggle to maintain business resilience. This study aims to examine how a company’s organizational resilience can be achieved by focusing on the effects of entrepreneurial orientation and agile leadership, with innovation capabilities serving as a mediating variable. A quantitative approach was employed, and a purposive sampling survey was conducted in November 2025 among 40 managerial-level employees at leading Indonesian electric two-wheeled vehicle companies to capture actual market conditions. Using SmartPLS, the study found that entrepreneurial orientation positively influences innovation capabilities (t-value = 1.964, p-value = 0.050), which, in turn, is positively associated with organizational resilience (t-value = 4.859, p-value = 0.000). However, the association between entrepreneurial orientation and organizational resilience is less significant when mediated by innovation capabilities (t-value = 1.681, p-value = 0.093). Moreover, agile leadership is not significantly associated with either innovation capabilities (t-value = 1.112, p-value = 0.266) or organizational resilience (t-value = 0.818, p-value = 0.413). The study documented leadership types aligned with leaders’ generation characteristics, with a focus on adaptation. This study contributes to theory in two ways: by employing a quantitative approach in a rarely studied context of electric vehicles and by advancing the resource-based theory. Additionally, it offers practical insights for entrepreneurs by focusing on their company’s innovation capabilities to foster resilience. The study is limited by its cross-sectional design; future research should use longitudinal data and additional variables.