Тransformative leadership of universities in the global economic environment

Abstract

Universities are subjects of transformative impact in nature as they are focused on the creation and dissemination of new knowledge. Modern universities operate and interact in a global competition and the challenges of the knowledge economy, which updates the task of achieving the leadership position in the global market for knowledge services. Leadership is part of a management process and more and more shifts to the sphere of economic analysis at different levels. Leadership of universities is not only a goal but a tool of competition and competitive advantage. Leadership itself is a phenomenon that can have a powerful transforming, transformative impact of leaders on the external and internal environment of the university. Transformative leadership refers to a form of leadership under which the leader of the company changes the internal forces to achieve the goal. Transformative impact is experienced by both leading universities and all university environment for which new vectors and new goals are set, and achieving them is possible only on the basis of new approaches to management.