THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE ON THE SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: MEDIATING ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Abstract

The history of sustainability rooted back in 1800s, yet the concept was practically adopted in business in 1980’s. Sustainability gain popularity after the SDGs in 2017, and higher education institutions (HEIs) has also adopted sustainability measures in their businesses. This study explores the impact of organizational change on transformational leadership and sustainable performance. Climate of change, process of change and readiness for change are used as the dimensions of change and for sustainable performance the dimensions used are economic performance, social performance, and environmental performance. Furthermore, the mediating effect of transformational leadership between organisational change and sustainable performance. The institutional theory and resource-based view theory are employed to explain the relationship among variables in the conceptual framework in Malaysian context. This is a quantitative, cross-sectional study which adopts positivist approach and self-administered questionnaire are adapted from previous research. The stratified random sampling technique will be used to collect data from higher education institutions (HEIs) in West Malaysia.