Mediating sustainable competitive advantage on adaptive leadership and higher education performance

Higher education competition is getting tighter due to the increasing number of universities, in addition there are also more and more universities from abroad operating in Indonesia. Higher education leaders must be adaptive to competitive challenges and very rapid environmental changes so that universities can be competitive and sustainable so that they produce good performance. The purpose of this study is to test and prove the effect of adaptive leadership on higher education performance with the mediation of sustainable competitive advantage. The sample of this study is a study program at a private university in Madiun City. The respondents of this study are the head of the study program and the secretary of the study program. Primary data was collected using a questionnaire in the form of a Google form and sent via WhatsApp to respondents, obtaining 32 data. Hypothesis testing uses path analysis and the Sobel Test. The research results prove that adaptive leadership has an influence on higher education performance. Adaptive leadership has a significant effect on sustainable competitive advantage and sustainable competitive advantage has a significant effect on higher education performance. The results of the path analysis test with SPSS and the results of the test with the Sobel test show sustainable competitive advantage as a mediation Keywords— adaptive leadership; Sustainable competitive advantage; higher education performance.