The Mediating Role of Business Intelligence Capabilities between Organizational Entrepreneurship and Strategic Success at Jordanian Governmental Universities

Abstract

This study aims at measuring and analyzing the impact of organizational entrepreneurship on achieving strategic success through business intelligence capabilities at Jordanian governmental universities. The study population consisted of all top leadership members of Jordanian governmental universities (Presidents, Vice Presidents, Assistant Presidents, Deans of Faculties, Vice Deans and Heads of Departments). A survey sample, which consisted of 435 respondents, was used for data collection. To achieve the objectives of the study and to test its hypotheses, the descriptive analytical method was used through a questionnaire that consisted of 63 items and was employed as the main tool for data collection. A number of statistical tools and methods were used, such as: Means, Standard Deviations, One-Sample T-test, Multiple Regression and Path Analysis. Following the analysis of the collected data, a number of results were obtained: (1) there was a significant impact of organizational entrepreneurship on achieving strategic success at Jordanian governmental universities, (2) there was a significant impact of organizational entrepreneurship on business intelligence capabilities at Jordanian governmental universities, (3) there was a significant impact of business intelligence capabilities on achieving strategic success at Jordanian governmental universities and (4) there was an indirect impact of business intelligence capabilities as a mediating variable in the relationship between organizational entrepreneurship and strategic success. The study recommends promoting pioneer culture and connecting it to strategy, goals, long - term and short- term performance results, as well as emphasizing its role in changing the organizational structure from bureaucratic structure to flat member structure, relying on business intelligence capacities and promoting pioneer team work.