Leadership, Faculty Behaviour, and Educational Supply Chain Management: A Systemic Model for Fostering Entrepreneurial Intentions in Higher Education
Keywords:
citizenship behaviour; efficacy; educational environment; entrepreneurship intentions; higher education; leaders; optimism; sustainabilityAbstract
This paper examines the impact of genuine transformational leadership on entrepreneurial intentions of students in the context of educational supply chain management, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The study formulates propositions by reviewing literature on leadership, teacher traits and entrepreneurship education to provide the relationship between leadership and the entrepreneurial innovation intentions, academic optimism and organizational citizenship behavior of the students. It emphasizes the contribution of academic optimism in the explanation of the influence of leadership on teachers and students. The paper provides a unified conceptual framework that may be used in future empirical studies and demonstrates how universities can nurture entrepreneurial attitudes and innovative practices with the help of successful leadership. The results offer useful suggestions to academic faculty who want to foster the entrepreneurial potential of students and suggest the way to conduct research. This work bridges leadership, education management and entrepreneurship, which provides a new approach to innovation promotion among students and enhances the effectiveness of higher education institutions.
https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.25.1.44
References
Anjum, T., Farrukh, M., Heidler, P., & Díaz Tautiva, J. A. (2020). Entrepreneurial intention: Creativity, entrepreneurship, and university support. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 7(1), 11.
Antonopoulou, H., Halkiopoulos, C., Barlou, O., & Beligiannis, G. N. (2021). Transformational leadership and digital skills in higher education institutes: during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging Science Journal, 5(1), 1–15. https://www.ijournalse.org/index.php/ESJ/article/view/438
Azjen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Humnan Decision Processees, 50, 179-211.
Barba-Sánchez, V., Mitre-Aranda, M., & del Brío-González, J. (2022). The entrepreneurial intention of university students: An environmental perspective. European Research on Management and Business Economics, 28(2), 100184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100184
Bass. B. M.. and Steidlmeier. P. (1999). Ethics. Character. and authentic transformational leadership behavior. Leadership Quarterly, 10(2). 181-21
Bell, R. (2019). Predicting entrepreneurial intention across the university. Education+ Training, 61(7/8), 815-831.
Bell, R., & Bell, H. (2020). Applying educational theory to develop a framework to support the delivery of experiential entrepreneurship education. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-01-2020-0012
Chahal, J., Shoukat, M. H., & Ayoubi, R. (2024). How entrepreneurial environment and education influence university students’ entrepreneurial intentions: The mediating role of entrepreneurial motivation. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 14(3), 591–609. https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-10-2022-0206
Choi, J. N., Price, R. H., & Vinokur, A. D. (2003). Self?efficacy changes in groups: effects of diversity, leadership, and group climate. Journal of Organizational Behavior: The International Journal of Industrial, Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Behavior, 24(4), 357-372. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.195
Díaz, E. R., Sánchez-Vélez, C. G., & Santana-Serrano, L. (2019). Integrating the five practices of the exemplary leadership model into entrepreneurship education. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13(3), 10. https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2019.130310
Elrehail, H., Emeagwali, O. L., Alsaad, A., & Alzghoul, A. (2018). The impact of transformational and authentic leadership on innovation in higher education: The contingent role of knowledge sharing. Telematics and Informatics, 35(4), 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.09.018
Erboz, G., Yumurtac? Hüseyino?lu, I. Ö., & Szegedi, Z. (2022). The partial mediating role of supply chain integration between Industry 4.0 and supply chain performance. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 27(4), 538-559. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-09-2020-0485
Etim, E. O., Goddymkpa, C. P., Madubuike, E. S., & Charlie, S. S. (2021). Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and entrepreneurial effectiveness in Uyo Metropolis of Akwa Ibom State. IAR Journal of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Design Thinking, 2(4).
Fardillah, L., Prasetyo, B., & Putri, R. Y. (2018, July). Transformational leadership in higher education institutions and employee satisfaction interventions. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Postgraduate School (ICPS), 1, 721–724. Scitepress. 10.5220/0007550307210724
Farid, T., Iqbal, S., Khan, A., Ma, J., Khattak, A., & Naseer Ud Din, M. (2020). The impact of authentic leadership on organizational citizenship behaviors: The mediating role of affective? and cognitive-based trust. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1975. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01975
Fayolle, A., Gailly, B., & Lassas?Clerc, N. (2006). Assessing the impact of entrepreneurship education programmes: A new methodology. Journal of European Industrial Training, 30(9), 701-720. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090590610715022
Feller, J., Finnegan, P., & Hayes, J. (2006). Open-source networks: an exploration of business model and agility issues. Retrieved January 21, 2026 from https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2006/95/
Barrachina Fernández, M., García-Centeno, M. D. C., & Calderón Patier, C. (2021). Women sustainable entrepreneurship: Review and research agenda. Sustainability, 13(21), 12047.
Gozukara, I., Yildirim, O., & Yildiz, B. (2016). Innovative behavior: Relations with developmental culture, Psychological empowerment, Distributive justice and organizational learning capacity. International Business Research, 9(10), 186-200.
Gozukara, I., & Colakoglu, N. (2016). Enhancing entrepreneurial intention and innovativeness of university students: The mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness. International Business Research, 9(2), 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v9n2p34
Habib, M., & Zurawicki, L. (2010). The bottom of the pyramid: Key roles for businesses. Journal of Business & Economics Research, 8(5), 23.
Habib, M., & Jungthirapanich, C. (2009). Research framework of education supply chain, research supply chain and educational management for the universities. International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management (IJCIM), 17(24), 1–8. 10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5303124
Haddad, G., Haddad, G., & Nagpal, G. (2021). Can students’ perception of the diverse learning environment affect their intentions toward entrepreneurship? Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 6(3), 167-176.
Han, S. L., Wilson, D. T., & Dant, S. P. (1993). Buyer-supplier relationships today. Industrial Marketing Management, 22(4), 331-338.
Howell, J. L., Bullington, K. E., Gregory, D. E., Williams, M. R., & Nuckols, W. L. (2022). Transformational leadership in higher education programs. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 3(1).
Ilie, S., Rose, P., & Vignoles, A. (2021). Understanding higher education access: Inequalities and early learning in low and lower?middle?income countries. British Educational Research Journal, 47(5), 1237-1258. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3723
Jain, S., Khare, A., Goel, O., & Goel, P. (2023). The impact of NEP 2020 on higher education in India: A comparative study of select educational institutions before and after the implementation of the policy. International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, 11(5), h349-h360
Jauhar, S. K., Pant, M., & Dutt, R. (2018). Performance measurement of an Indian higher education institute: A sustainable educational supply chain management perspective. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 9, 180–193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-016-0505-4
Jauhar, S. K., Pant, M., & Nagar, A. K. (2017). Sustainable educational supply chain performance measurement through DEA and differential evolution: A case on Indian HEI. Journal of Computational Science, 19, 138–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2016.10.007
Jun, K., Hu, Z., & Lee, J. (2023). Examining the influence of authentic leadership on follower hope and organizational citizenship behavior: the mediating role of follower identification. Behavioral Sciences, 13(7), 572.
Khalil, M. I., Haque, R., Senathirajah, A. R. S., Connie, G., & Chawdhury, B. (2022). Entrepreneurial Leadership on SME’s Performance in Malaysia. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6, 10758-10775.
Krug, M. T. (2015). Academic optimism, organizational citizenship behavior, and principal support: An examination of factors effecting teacher agency in elementary schools. (Doctoral Dissertation. The College of William and Mary). https://search.proquest.com/openview/0e7bf367228ea37edae8a878c566059b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750
Kulophas, D., Hallinger, P., Ruengtrakul, A., & Wongwanich, S. (2018). Exploring the effects of authentic leadership on academic optimism and teacher engagement in Thailand. International Journal of Educational Management, 32(1), 27-45.
Kumar, A. (2021). New education policy (NEP) 2020: A roadmap for India 2.0. University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing, 3(2021), 36. https://www.doi.org/10.5038/9781955833042
Kumar, K., Prakash, A., & Singh, K. (2021). How national education policy 2020 can be a lodestar to transform future generation in India. Journal of Public affairs, 21(3), e2500. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2500
Lau, A. K. (2007). Educational supply chain management: a case study. On the Horizon, 15(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/10748120710735239
Lee, A., Lyubovnikova, J., Zheng, Y., & Li, Z. F. (2023). Paradoxical leadership: a meta-analytical review. Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, 1, 1229543.
Leffler, E. (2020). An entrepreneurial attitude: Implications for teachers’ leadership skills?. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 19(4), 640-654. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2019.1668021
McGuigan, L., & Hoy, W. K. (2006). Principal leadership: Creating a culture of academic optimism to improve achievement for all students. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 5(3), 203-229.
Meenakshi, M., & Sharma, M. R. (2022). Promoting entrepreneurship for Atamnirbhar Bharat: Toward sustainable education. Sustainable Society: A New Beginning, 119. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sivakumar-A-4/publication/357909453_SUSTAINABLE_SOCIETY_A_NEW_BEGINNING/links/61e6c64adafcdb25fd34e246/SUSTAINABLE-SOCIETY-A-NEW-BEGINNING.pdf#page=125
Nakano, M., & Matsuyama, K. (2021). Internal supply chain structure design: a multiple case study of Japanese manufacturers. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 24(1), 79-101.
Ndofirepi, T. M. (2020). Relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial goal intentions: Psychological traits as mediators. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 9(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13731-020-0115-x
Nichols, H. (2008). The impact of servant leadership on the leadership development needs of student leaders (Master's thesis, Nyack College). https://search.proquest.com/openview/488fbaed955c7d9eb4bf36a6f26cc1b8/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750
Ninkovi?, S., ?or?i?, D., & Oli?-Ninkovi?, S. (2023). Modeling the relationships between transformational leadership, teacher academic optimism, and teacher engagement: Evidence from the Serbian school context. Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja, 55(1), 161-187.
O’Brien, E. M., & Deans, K. R. (1996). Educational supply chain: a tool for strategic planning in tertiary education?. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 14(2), 33-40.
Paray, Z. A., & Kumar, S. (2020). Does entrepreneurship education influence entrepreneurial intention among students in HEI’s? The role of age, gender and degree background. Journal of International Education in Business, 13(1), 55-72.
Prasetia, I., Melfayetty, S., & Dewi, R. (2020). The effect of transformational leadership and academic optimism culture on teacher empowerment and motivation along its impact on the effectiveness of Medan state junior high school. International Journal on Language, Research and Education Studies, 4(2), 276-290.
Rahman, M. M., Fayolle, A., Dana, L. P., & Rahman, M. N. (2024). Predicting graduate students’ entrepreneurial intentions through innovative teaching in entrepreneurship education: SEM-ANN approach. Education+ Training, 66(2/3), 273-301.
Rastegar, B., & Safari, F. (2017). Output-Based Instruction, Learning Styles and Vocabulary Learning in the EFL Context of Iran. International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 5(2), 101-111.
Ratten, V., & Usmanij, P. (2021). Entrepreneurship education: Time for a change in research direction. The International Journal of Management Education, 19(1), 100367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2020.100367
Rauf, K., & Ahmed, J. (2017). The relationship of authoritarian parenting style and academic performance in school students. Pakistan journal of psychology, 48(2).
Razavi, S. H., & Ab Aziz, K. (2017). The dynamics between entrepreneurial orientation, transformational leadership, and intrapreneurial intention in Iranian R&D sector. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 23(5), 769-792.
Ribeiro, N., Duarte, A. P., Filipe, R., & David, R. (2022). Does authentic leadership stimulate organizational citizenship behaviors? The importance of affective commitment as a mediator. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 13(2), 320-340.
Sart, G. (2014). The new leadership model of university management for innovation and entrepreneurship. Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, (57), 73-90. https://doi.org/10.14689/ejer.2014.57.6
Shaikh, N. F., Nili, M., Dwibedi, N., & Madhavan, S. S. (2020). Initial validation of an instrument for measuring entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial intentions in student pharmacists. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 84(7), ajpe7624.
Shapero, A., &Sokol, L. (1982). The social dimensions of entrepreneurship. In C. Kent, Sexton, D., Vesper, K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of entrepreneurship (pp.72-90). Prentice-Hall.
Shapira-Lishchinsky, O., & Tsemach, S. (2014). Psychological empowerment as a mediator between teachers’ perceptions of authentic leadership and their withdrawal and citizenship behaviors. Educational Administration Quarterly, 50(4), 675-712.
Sheikh, Y. A. (2017). Higher education in India: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Education and Practice, 8(1), 39-42. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1131773
Shirokova, G., Osiyevskyy, O., & Bogatyreva, K. (2016). Exploring the intention–behavior link in student entrepreneurship: Moderating effects of individual and environmental characteristics. European Management Journal, 34(4), 386-399.
Srivastava, A. P., & Dhar, R. L. (2016). Authentic leadership for teacher’s academic optimism: Moderating effect of training comprehensiveness. European Journal of Training and Development, 40(5), 321-344.
Srivastava, A. P., & Dhar, R. L. (2015). Training comprehensiveness: construct development and relation with role behavior. European Journal of Training and Development, 39(7), 641-662. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-06-2015-0039
Srivastava, A. P., Agarwal, S., Yadav, R., & Yadav, M. (2025). Diagnosing entrepreneurial readiness among women in family businesses: The WFBER scale and its institutional implications. Industry and Higher Education, 09504222251397489.
Srivastava, A. P., & Dhar, R. L. (2019). Authentic leadership and extra role behavior: A school based integrated model. Current Psychology, 38(3), 684-697. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-017-9634-4
Srivastava, A. P., & Shree, S. (2019). Development of inclusive education theoretical model: Role of authentic leadership, academic optimism and art-based pedagogies. International Journal of Educational Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-02-2019-0063
Srivastava, A. P., Mani, V., & Yadav, M. (2019). Evaluating the implications of stakeholder’s role toward sustainability of higher education. Journal of Cleaner Production, 240, 118270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118270
Srivastava, A. P., Shree, S., & Agarwal, S. (2022). Does authentic leadership develop inclusive classrooms: a model examination?. International Journal of Educational Management, 36(4), 495-514. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-07-2020-0338
Srivastava, A., Agarwal, S., & Ganapathy, M. (2022). Inclusive higher education in cross-cultural settings. International Journal of Educational Management, 36(4), 357-363. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-05-2022-589
Su, Y., Zhu, Z., Chen, J., Jin, Y., Wang, T., Lin, C. L., & Xu, D. (2021). Factors influencing entrepreneurial intention of university students in China: Integrating the perceived university support and theory of planned behavior. Sustainability, 13(8), 4519. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084519
Ta?k?ran, G. (2019). The relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and entrepreneurial orientation: A research in the hospitality industry. Procedia Computer Science, 158, 672-679.
Thapa, P. P., Zayed, N. M., Alam, M. N., Nitsenko, V. S., Rudenko, S., & Svyrydenko, D. (2025). Mediating and moderating role of emotional intelligence between mobile phone use and affective commitment among undergraduate students in academic institutes. Current Psychology, 44(8), 6610-6626.
Thomassen, M. L., Middleton, K. W., Ramsgaard, M. B., Neergaard, H., & Warren, L. (2019). Conceptualizing context in entrepreneurship education: A literature review. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 26(5), 863-886. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-04-2018-0258
Töre, E., & Çetin, E. (2022). The mediating role of organizational culture in the effect of school managers' authentic leadership behaviors on teachers' organizational citizenship behavior. International Online Journal of Educational Sciences (IOJES).
Wagner, T., Kegan, R., Lahey, L. L., Lemons, R. W., Garnier, J., Helsing, D., Howell, A. & Rasmussen, H. T. (2012). Change leadership: A practical guide to transforming our schools. John Wiley & Sons.
Wang, T., Deng, M., & Tian, G. (2022). More leadership, more efficacy for inclusive practices? Exploring the relationships between distributed leadership, teacher leadership, and self-efficacy among inclusive education teachers in China. Sustainability, 14(23), 16168.
Wathanakom, N., Khlaisang, J., & Songkram, N. (2020). The study of the causal relationship between innovativeness and entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate students. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 9(1), 15.
Zakaria, M., Arifin, M. A., Yusoff, M. S. A., Sari, E. N., & Zakaria, N. B. (2021). Antecedent Factors of Women Entrepreneurs’ Success: Empowering Women and Gender Equality. Academy of Strategic Management Journal, 20, 1-15.
Zhang, S. (2014). Impact of job involvement on organizational citizenship behaviors in China. Journal of Business Ethics, 120(2), 165-174.
Zhang, Z., Wan, D., & Jia, M. (2008). Do high-performance human resource practices help corporate entrepreneurship? The mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior. The Journal of High Technology Management Research, 19(2), 128-138.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 Mohit Yadav, Anugamini Priya Srivastava, Muna I. Alyousef, Mohammad Faraz Naim, Azadeh Amoozegar
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
All articles published by IJLTER are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International License (CCBY-NC-ND4.0).
