Investigating the Structural Pattern of Relationships among Organizational Intelligence, Organizational Agility and Organizational Innovation in Higher Education (Case Study: Urmia University)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural pattern of relationships among organizational intelligence, organizational agility and organizational innovation in Urmia University through a correlational descriptive method. The statistical population of this study was composed of all staff of University of Urmia (N=490). Having used Morgan Table, it was attempted to determine the statistical sample of 2014 individuals through stratified random sampling method. The data collection tools included Organizational Intelligence Survey (Albrecht, 2003), Organizational Agility (Spiders, 2007) and Organizational Innovation (Taher Parvar et al., 2014). The reliability of the scales was confirmed by Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient. Besides, the content validity of the scales was confirmed through collecting the viewpoints of expert as well as confirmatory factor analysis. Given the data analysis, it was attempted to make use of structural equation modeling. The results revealed that the direct impact of organizational intelligence on organizational innovation was positive and significant (0.28). Furthermore, it was indicated that the direct impact of organizational agility on the organizational innovation was also positive and significant (0.19). Similarly, the direct impact of organizational intelligence on organizational agility was positive and significant (0.23). However, indirect impact of organizational intelligence on organizational innovation was positive and significant (0.13), considering the moderator impact of organizational agility.