Nigerian universities face poor leadership and limited support for innovation. This study explores how sustainable leadership enhances lasting institutional innovation in higher education, emphasizing the role of organizational learning culture.
The study employed a descriptive survey research design because it allowed for scientific data collection for the purpose of analysis. The population of the study, 30,370, consisted of the academic employees of federal universities in north-central Nigeria. The study used a stratified sampling technique as a result of the widespread population, while the sample size of 379 was determined through Krejcie and Morgan’s sample size formula. All the items of the questionnaire were adapted from past studies, and the online questionnaire was used to gather information from the respondents. The study employed descriptive statistics to analyse the profile of the respondent and items of the questionnaire, while inferential statistics via partial least squares were used to analyse the formulated hypotheses.
The results found that sustainable leadership has a significant and positive effect on institutional innovation. And that organizational learning culture mediates the relationship between sustainable leadership and institutional innovation.
The study explores how sustainable leadership influences innovation in higher education, with a special focus on the role of organizational learning culture as a mediator, an area that has not been widely studied.
