TY - JOUR AU - Abd Elrahman‎ Rashwan AU - Etidal ‎Al-Helou AU - Essam ‎Al-Taweel PY - 2022/07/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Mediating Role of Palestinian University Governance in the Impact Relationship between Digital Transformation and Institutional Innovation JF - Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences JA - CUEJHSS VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.24086/cuejhss.v6n2y2022.pp109-122 UR - https://journals.cihanuniversity.edu.iq/index.php/cuejhss/article/view/626 AB - The main aim of this study is to identify the mediating role of Palestinian university governance in the ‎relationship of influence between digital transformation and institutional innovation‏ ‏The researchers ‎relied on the descriptive analytical approach, and the use of the questionnaire tool, which was ‎distributed to a sample of (90) individuals, randomly selected from the study population consisting of ‎a dean, deputy dean, department head, department director, faculty ‎members/accounting/administration) in the Palestinian universities in the Gaza Strip. The results ‎showed that the mediating variable, the governance of Palestinian universities, mediates a partial ‎mediation in the relationship of influence between digital transformation and institutional innovation. ‎Knowing that the results showed a positive correlation between digital transformation and institutional ‎innovation without introducing the governance of Palestinian universities, it was found that there is a ‎positive effect between digital transformation and corporate governance. Palestinian universities, ‎where digitization has become an essential thing in the educational process‏.‏The study recommended ‎the need to pay attention to the existence of a flexible and dynamic technical university governance ‎environment that keeps pace with the present and future development, and the need to promote digital ‎transformation in Palestinian universities to keep pace with technological progress toward institutional ‎innovation and to confront any future conditions that affect the continuity of the educational process‏.‏ ER -