Entrepreneurial Leadership and its Role in Enhancing Organizational Excellence
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https://doi.org/10.24086/cuejhss.v10n1y2026.pp97-105Keywords:
Administrative Leaders, Entrepreneurial leadership, Leadership, Organizational excellence, Private universities of Kurdistan Region–IraqAbstract
As a people-centered leadership style, entrepreneurial leadership (EL) has been increasingly acknowledged and valued by scholars in recent years, particularly in the field of management research. EL entails seeing chances for growth and directing team members to take advantage of them in order to reach organizational goals. The main objective of this study is to examine the potential role of EL in improving organizational excellence (OE) at private universities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The quantitative method has been used in this research. The population target was administrative leaders at private universities; hence, (220) questionnaires were disseminated to all departments’ heads as a sample size among (17) Private Universities in the Kurdistan Region, of which only (171) were completed and retrieved. A set of statistical methods and analyzes were used, employing the Statistical Package for Social Sciences-26 and (analysis of moment structures (AMOS-26) program. The findings of this study explored that EL has a strong relationship with OE, as the value of the correlation coefficient between them reached (0.91). Moreover, EL affects OE by (0.92), meaning that each increase by one standard deviation leads to an increase in percentage (92%). It is recommended that to achieve OE, there must be a complicated balance of interests among all parties involved in the firm, including employees, customers, and society as a whole. Moreover, the administrative leader’s role extends beyond ensuring operational efficiency; they must also actively facilitate the development of their team members’ full potential.
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