The Role of Organizational Innovative Capabilities in Achieving Strategic Agility: An analytical study of the opinions of administrative leaders in private universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Abstract

The changes in the business environment have caused organizations to focus a lot on improving their organizational innovative capabilities to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by keeping pace with these changes and developing their strategic agility to meet the demands of their customers. This research investigates the role of organizational innovative capabilities in achieving strategic agility among administrative leaders in private universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Based on the nature of the research and the objectives it seeks to achieve, a descriptive-analytical approach has been relied upon. In this research quantitative method was used through questionnaires to collect data and the target samples were 238 administrative leaders, including deans of faculties/colleges, vice deans, heads of departments, coordinators of departments, and unit administrators who were selected through simple random sampling as academic and administrative leaders in private universities in all the cities in the Kurdistan region. The data has been analyzed with the help of several statistical methods, the correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regressions as a measure of the strength of the linear relationship and impact between the two variables of organizational innovative capabilities and strategic agility. Statistical data were analyzed and hypotheses were tested using the SPSS program. The results of the research showed that organizational innovative capabilities have a strong relationship with strategic agility.