The Role of Green Leadership in promoting sustainable Entrepreneurship: An exploratory study of the opinions of a sample of administrative leaders in the Oil Exploration Company
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The research aims to determine the relationship between green leadership as an independent variable and its role in promoting sustainable leadership. In order to achieve this, green leadership was adopted as an independent variable, while sustainable Entrepreneurship with its dimensions (environmental Entrepreneurship, economic Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship) was adopted as an approved variable.
The research problem was represented in (Is green leadership a role in promoting sustainable Entrepreneurship in the company in question) and a hypothesis was built that determines the nature of the relationship and influence between the variables, and two main hypotheses were formulated from which sub-hypotheses were derived.
To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher used the descriptive analytical approach. The research community included the administrative leaders (the directors of bodies, departments and projects), who numbered (70), and the sample of the research consisted of (70) individuals whose opinions were surveyed according to a court questionnaire for this purpose, which were analyzed using statistical means. Advanced within the ready-made statistical program (SPSS).
The research concluded a set of results, the most important of which were: There are two significant correlations and impacts between green leadership and sustainable Entrepreneurship. The research concluded with a set of recommendations, most notably the need to create a green organizational culture by promoting and establishing green trends to enable workers to contribute to the preservation of natural resources. Protecting the environment at the individual and organizational level and enabling them to face and solve problems appropriately and achieve sustainable pioneering goals.
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