Rethinking Leadership Under Constraint: A Behavioural–Structural–Relational Model of Sequenced Transformation in Higher Education
1. Introduction Universities worldwide are under increasing pressure from digitalisation, heightened accountability, demographic change, and high expectations for societal impact (Altbach & de Wit, 2022; Marginson, 2023). Strategic leadership has been identified as the most powerful lever through which institutions respond to these disruptions (Bolden et al., 2023; Middlehurst, 2013). Much of this literature is … Read more