Overall, while the university has taken significant steps towards sustainability by establishing a decarbonisation plan, the level of environmental consciousness among students and their understanding

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• THE SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP & SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: MEDIATING ROLE OF SUSTAINABLE CULTURE (2026) · doi

  1. The institutions need to make an investment in developing sustainable leadership through integration of sustainability-focused competencies into leadership and succession planning that may ensure that current and future leaders have vision and ethical orientation, to enact the sustainable performance. 2. The institutional policies and governance systems must strategically foster the sustainability culture through the integrated implantation of sustainability value to the mission statements, Journal of Social Research Development, Volume 7, Issue 1, MARCH, 2026 9 Khan & Mughal … Sustainable Leadership & strategic plans, and curriculum development, that sustainability becomes the collective and internalized practice for success. 3. The institutions are supposed to promote extensive stakeholder participation that is achieved over faculty, student involvement in sustainability-related decision-making and activities, as participatory practices enhance cultural ownership and improve leadership commitment to long-term performance results. 4. The institutions need to adopt the unremitting monitoring and evaluation frameworks of the sustainability performance, relying on feedback and learning systems to solidify sustainable culture and empower leaders to modify the approaches to the arising environmental, societal, and institutional diverse issues. REFERENCES Cho, C., & Kao, R. (2022). Developing Sustainable Workplace through Leadership: Perspectives of THE Transformational Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article ID: 924091. Eustachio, P., Caldana, F., & Filho, W. (2023). Sustainability leadership: Conceptual foundations and research landscape. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137761, 137761. Eustachio, P., Salvia, A. L., Brandli, L., Trevisan, V., Barbir, J., & Caldana, F. (2024). Implementing sustainability in teaching: Role of sustainability leadership and transformational leadership in context of higher education institutions. Sustainable Development, 32(5), 5331–5347. Fornell, C., & Larcker, D. F. (1981). Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error: Algebra and Statistics. Journal of Marketing Research, 18, 382-388. Godemann, J., Bebbington, J., Herzig, C., & Moon, J. (2014). The Higher education and sustainable development. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 27(2), 218-233. Hadhrami, A., & Rosmelisa, Y. (2024). Impact of sustainable leadership on employee's competency and sustainable development in private HEI. Global Business and Management Research: An International Journal, 16 (4s), 1041-1053. Hair, J. F., Sarstedt, M., Ringle, C. M., & Gudergan, S. P. (2018). Advanced Issues in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Henseler, J., Ringle, C. M., & Sarstedt, M. (2015). A New

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• Which leadership processes encourage sustainable transitions within universities? (2022) · doi

  Design/methodology/approach This study aims to offer a systematic literature review of the existing literature on sustainability-related leadership processes, levels and theories that encourage the transformation of universities, aimed at providing guidance on this topic; uncovering gaps in the literature; and finding new paths for future research.

  Keywords: literature design methodology approach aims offer systematic review existing sustainability related leadership processes levels theories
• Exploring Environmental Awareness and Engagement among Teacher Education Students: A Case Study of a Private University in Karachi, Pakistan (2026) · doi

  Overall, while the university has taken significant steps towards sustainability by establishing a decarbonisation plan, the level of environmental consciousness among students and their understanding of their role as future educators in promoting sustainability remains unclear.

  Keywords: sustainability overall university taken significant steps towards establishing decarbonisation plan level environmental consciousness among students