The role of organizational improvisation in reducing strategic inertia: An exploratory study in the Iraqi Middle East Investment Bank

Abstract

The rapidly changing environment has forced organizations to make decisions to confront it, and to break the stereotype in strategic decision-making, and this is embodied through the objective of the research based on studying the role that organizational improvisation plays in reducing the strategic inertia, and the administrative leaderships of the Iraqi Middle East Investment Bank were chosen In their capacity as representing the higher departments responsible for developing strategies, by adopting the questionnaire as a source for collecting data for measuring the research variables, (60) questionnaires were distributed, of which only (35) were valid and were analyzed using statistical methods to analyze data using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The most important findings of the research was the presence of a significant effect of the independent variable represented by organizational improvisation on the dependent variable, which is strategic inertia, and this indicates that organizational improvisation has a great role in the organizations ’endeavor to reduce the strategic inertia that afflicts them. Therefore, organizations should enhance their improvisation capabilities Organizational program in order to achieve its strategic goals and work to develop special programs to develop its competitive capabilities.