Sustainable competitive advantage in private higher education institutions in Indonesia

In the rapidly changing environment, every organization have to exploit sustainable competitive advantage. However, relevant research to date is mostly conceptual, little empirical evidence has been found in investigating the factors to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This study aims to investigate the influence of leadership and dynamic capabilities to sustainable competitive advantage mediated by knowledge management in Private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Data collected from population of 10,213 lecturers from 318 Private HEIs with academic hierarchy except professor. The data collected from the survey applied to Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) using SmartPLS 3.0.M3. From the study found that Leadership significantly affects Knowledge ManagementLeadership does not significantly affect to Sustainable Competitive AdvantageDynamic Capabilities does not significantly affect to Sustainable Competitive AdvantageDynamic Capabilities significantly affects to Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management significantly affects to Sustainable Competitive Advantage.This study concluded that Leadership and Dynamic Capabilities significantly affect Sustainable Competitive Advantage Mediated by Knowledge Management