This research aims to compare the influence of digital transformation on the academicians’ well-being of two developing nations. A conceptual model has been created where three exogenous (independent) constructs of digital transformation have been compared with two endogenous (dependent) constructs of academicians’ well-being in India and Mexico. The impact of ‘Digital Transformation and Innovation’; ‘Digital Transformation and Adversity’; and ‘Digital Transformation and Technological Issues’ has been assessed on ‘Workplace Well-being’ and ‘Adversity and Psychological Well-being’. Six hundred and seventy-seven responses, 375 from India and 302 from Mexico, have been received and used for data analysis. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) has been used to define exogenous and endogenous constructs. The Multigroup Analysis (MGA) tool of PLS-SEM was implemented to compare the results from both nations. The MGA results explain the significant difference for the impact of ‘Digital Transformation and Adversity (DTA)’ on academicians’ ‘Workplace Well-being (WW)’ and ‘Adversity and Psychological Well-being (APW)’.
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