STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AS DRIVERS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: EVIDENCE FROM UNIVERSITY X

Agung Augustrianto, Gunawan Gunawan

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This study aims to investigate the ways in which knowledge management, organisational culture, and strategic leadership affect University X's competitive advantage. As the demands on graduates' competitiveness in the digital era, research innovation, and educational quality increase, so does the level of rivalry among Indonesian universities. Universities must thus enhance internal capacities through visionary leadership, adaptable organisational culture, and effective knowledge management if they hope to maintain a competitive edge. The quantitative methodology employed in this work is SEM-PLS. The data was submitted by 120 respondents, were education staff members and lecturers at University X. The results of the study showed that strategic leadership, organizational culture, and knowledge management has a positive and significant impact on competitive advantage. These data show how important those three variables to work together to make universities more competitive in a field that is becoming more and more competitive. However, Knowledge management has the biggest influence of the three variables, with the largest path coefficient value. Also, factors account for 68% of the variation in university competitive advantage. This further elucidates that knowledge management is crucial in higher education institutions, since knowledge perpetually evolves with changing times, necessitating ongoing updates by these institutions.

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Strategic Leadership; Organizational Culture; Knowledge Management; Competitive Advantage; Higher Education

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