Entrepreneurial Leadership in Arab Universities: Perspective in the Age of Globalization and Non-Linear Environmental Changes

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out a suitable leadership model for Arab universities which can be helpful in maintaining needed levels of responses to the ongoing non-linear environmental changes. Countries at the present century have led to an increasing non-linear dynamics in their environment. Different organizational leaderships, including universities, have found themselves required to work in new environment. The movement towards what is called the new world order, where open doors and free exchanges prevail among different countries, scientific and technological innovations, with their non-linear effects on the environment, have found their way to developing countries. The above mentioned transformation in developing countries , including Arab countries, has created the need for revising current organizational set ups, including leaderships, in order to respond to the renewing non-linear environmental needs and challenges. Findings of the analysis suggest that entrepreneurial leadership model could be helpful for responding to the non-linear dynamics of Arab universities environment.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s1p165