The relationship between social strategic agility and knowledge banking governance and their impact on achaieving the strategic goals An analytical study of the views of directors in the sample of brivete sector banks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Abstract

This study aims to find the relationships between the strategic agility (sensing agility, decision-making agility, action agility) and banking governance (transparency, fairness, accountability ) as independent variables and their impact on achieving strategic goals (profitability, growth, organizational reputation, social responsibility). This research is an important, because it attempts to identify the relationship between these variables together and scarcity of studies that take up of these variables. The study problem was determined in several questions related to the nature of the correlation relationship - the impact between the different independent variables (strategic agility, banking governance) and the depended variable (achieving strategic goals). SPSS program was used to analysis the collecting data. This research was applied on a sample of the private sector banks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The results of the study showed the validity of hypotheses. In addition, a number of conclusions have been formulated, the most important of which is that there is a positive relationship between strategic agility and banking governance. The study concluded with a number of recommendations which include a set of administrative mechanisms and practices that promote the adopting of banking governance by the private sector banks to adapting with all of the change that happen in the external environment, and make a proactive step to achieving strategic goals of banks.