Model of Organizational Creativity Strategy in Improving Positional Advantage of Vocational Schools in West Java

<span lang="EN-US">Vocational high schools play an important role in Indonesia's education system, particularly in vocational education, which prepares a ready-to-work labor force. This research, which is novel and groundbreaking, examines the organizational creativity strategy in enhancing the positional advantage of State Vocational High Schools (SMKN) Centers of Excellence in West Java, grounded by environmental turbulence and transformational leadership. The study is quantitative in design, using questionnaires as the main instrument, with an analysis unit of 288 SMKN Centers of Excellence in West Java and a sample size of 165 schools. Data analysis was conducted descriptively, and hypothesis testing was carried out using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) method. The findings show that environmental turbulence and transformational leadership significantly influence positional advantage, with transformational leadership having a more significant impact. Additionally, the organizational creativity strategy and partnership program serve as mediators, both in parallel and serial, in the relationship between environmental turbulence, transformational leadership, and positional advantage. The key implication of these findings is the importance of strengthening organizational creativity in addressing external and internal environmental dynamics, with the novelty lying in integrating these two factors in the development of positional advantage in vocational schools</span>