Tertiary Education Performance Influenced by Administrative Leadership, Entrepreneurial Orientation with Moderating Role of Managerial Ties

The professionals, researchers, scientists and specialists contribute in innovative initiatives for generating and utilizing knowledge through tertiary institutes that play a vital role in national development. World-class universities are required in today’s dynamic environment to accomplish the goals of knowledge excellence that further upsurge the role of educational institutions in the development of human capital and overall performance-related consequences. The appropriate leadership is necessary for higher education institutions that strong leadership has the potential to enhance the performance and mitigate the negative impact of events that may damage the performance of educational perspective. This research effort focused on the appropriate leadership style to handle the issues, challenges and problems occurred on routine basis from prime stakeholders that hinder the performance of universities in the public sector specifically. This study incorporated the role of administrative leadership, Entrepreneurial orientation, and managerial ties to explain the phenomenon of the performance of universities. The study proposed to investigate the moderation role of managerial ties between the exogenous and endogenous constructs. The research used a quantitative research method and collected data from university leaders through proportionate random sampling from the public sector universities of Punjab, Pakistan. Partial Least Squares (PLS) was utilized for data analysis and results generation, the results of the collected data implied that administrative leadership, and managerial ties significantly influence the university performance. The moderation role of managerial ties has been assessed and results revealed that managerial ties significantly moderate the relationship between administrative leadership and universities, between the relationship of Entrepreneurial orientation and university performance. The findings of the study suggested to higher education institutes to ensure the appropriate leadership style, effective practices for Entrepreneurial orientation to ensure the effective relationship between colleagues and supervisors in order to grasp the corporate’s strategic goals of higher education sector. The limitation and future research avenues are incorporated in the study.