The Department of Business Administration at the College of Administration and Economics, University of Mosul, discussed on Tuesday, (September 9, 2025), in Discussion Hall No. (1), the doctoral dissertation titled:

“Organizational Culture Patterns and Their Role in Digital Transformation: The Mediating Role of the Stages of Information Technology Diffusion – An Analytical Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Employees in Some Directorates of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior”,
submitted by the student Sohaib Abdulrahman Tu’ma Al-Douri.

The study aimed to test a model that demonstrates the effect of organizational culture patterns on digital transformation, with a focus on the mediating role of the stages of information technology diffusion. The researcher based his model on the literature that addressed these variables, where the organizational culture patterns were represented by: (Clan Culture, Innovative Culture, Market Culture, and Bureaucratic Culture).

The study reached several conclusions, the most prominent of which was: the existence of a significant effect of organizational culture patterns on digital transformation through the mediating role of the stages of information technology diffusion. This effect appeared in the form of “partial mediation.”

The discussion committee consisted of: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Ali Hussein Atiya – College of Administration and Economics / University of Tikrit – Chairman, Prof. Dr. Mohammed Mustafa Hussein – College of Administration and Economics / University of Mosul – Member, Asst. Prof. Dr. Hassan Thabet Jassim – College of Administration and Economics / University of Mosul – Member, Asst. Prof. Dr. Mohammed Asim Mohammed – College of Administration and Economics / University of Mosul – Member, Asst. Prof. Dr. Huda Abdulrahim Hussein – College of Administration and Economics / University of Mosul – Member sndA sst. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Younis Mohammed Al-Sab’awi – College of Administration and Economics / University of Mosul – Member and Supervisor.