The dynamic capabilities of the university as a mediating variable between knowledge management capabilities and innovative work behaviors of faculty members: An applied study at South Valley University

           The current research aimed to explain the reality of each of the dynamic capabilities, knowledge management capabilities, and innovative work behaviors of faculty members at South Valley University, in order to arrive at a model that explains the causal relationships between research variables (knowledge management capabilities - dynamic capabilities - innovative work behaviors) in universities in light of The results of the field study according to the proposed model in the current research, and the descriptive approach was used, and a questionnaire was applied to measure both dynamic capabilities, knowledge management capabilities and innovative work behaviors at South Valley University, and the study sample consisted of (219) leaders of South Valley University (faculty deans - faculty agents Heads of departments), members of each of the Quality, Strategic Planning and Technology Services unit, and reached a set of results, including: The dynamic capabilities of the university came in a medium degree (2.64), the capabilities of the knowledge management infrastructure came with a medium degree (2.68), and the areas of knowledge capacity came with a degree. Medium (2.54), and the capabilities of knowledge management processes with a score (2.58), and the innovative work behaviors came with a medium score (2.83). A path from knowledge management capabilities to the university’s dynamic capabilities = 0.545, which is significant at the level of (0.01), meaning that knowledge management capabilities positively affect the university’s dynamic capabilities. The path from the university’s dynamic capabilities to innovative work behaviors = 1.07, which is significant at the level of (0.01). That is, the dynamic capabilities of the university positively affect the behaviors of innovative work, that the path from knowledge management capabilities to innovative work behavior = 0.150, which is indicative at the level of (0.01), that is, knowledge management capabilities positively affect innovative work behaviors, and the indirect effect of capabilities Knowledge management on innovative work behaviors in the event that the dynamic capabilities of the university are mediated = 0.545 x 0.107 = 0.058, and this means that there is an indirect effect from knowledge management capabilities on innovative work behaviors passing through the dynamic capabilities of the university, and a causal model has been developed that explains these relationships.