Identifying the Factors Affecting Organizational Innovation among Islamic Azad University Libraries Using the Delphi Technique

Subject Areas : Organizational and managerial creativity-logy, creativity and innovation management

Seyed rasool Toudar ¹ , Zahra Abazari ² , Zohreh Mirhosseini ³ , Najla Hariri ⁴

1 - Ph.D. Candidate of Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Knowledge and Information Science, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Knowledge and Information Science, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Knowledge and Information Science, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-04-15 Accepted : 2020-06-16 Published : 2020-05-21

Keywords: Islamic Azad University, library, organizational innovation, Delphi Technique,

Abstract :

Background: This study aimed to identify the factors that affected organizational innovation among the Islamic Azad University libraries, and it tried to present a novel plan of organizational innovation. It also sought to develop the corpus of existing knowledge about the principles and relationships of organizational innovation indexes. In terms of the purpose, the present investigation was considered a fundamental study. Methodology: Since the current study sought to solve the problem of how to make organizational innovation among university libraries, the research method followed here was the applied method. Further, in terms of research design and data collection procedure, this study was a descriptive (non-experimental) one in which “Study” and “Delphi” methods were used for collecting the data. The population of the study included 20 academic experts (university professors in the field of management and science of Information) from which purposeful snowball sampling was done; and their viewpoints were elicited via the Delphi-Fuzzy method and were analyzed. Findings: The findings indicated that the highest degree of the experts’ agreement in the third poll was in terms of knowledge and specialty in individual dimension, communication system in group dimension, knowledge management in organizational dimension, infrastructure and technological complexities in environmental dimension, and thinking investment in humanistic and educational dimension. Also, among the studied dimensions, the highest degree of agreement was related to the group dimension, and the lowest was related to the humanistic and educational dimension. Conclusion: On the basis of the analysis output, all dimensions and components remained in the model, and the finalized model of the study included 5 dimensions and 11 components. The suggested model in this study seems to be capable of providing the background to make organizational innovation among the libraries of the Islamic Azad University branches and help them elicit improvement plans and measures and evaluate their position in the process of organizational innovation while making pathology of organizational innovation among the libraries of the Islamic Azad University.

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