Article: Investigating green transformational leadership behaviour through digital information literacy (meta-analysis approach) Journal: International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL) 2025 Vol.18 No.4 pp.358 - 373 Abstract: With the growing concerns of environmental issues, researchers and academician tries to introduce the concept of green transformational leadership in various organisations setup. Still the concept of green transformational leadership (GTRFL) is in nascent stage and need to be defined in its true spectrum from various perspective. The current study investigated in detail about the use of GTRFL in various organisation setups since its emergence (2013). For this purpose, meta-analysis approach was applied to investigate the highest cited article, university of affiliation and the use of GTRFL in Higher education. Results depict that only one study (Odugbesan et al., 2022) investigate GTRFL in HEI sector while the highest citation for (Singh et al., 2020) are more than 1,129. Based on the findings it is concluded that the importance of GTRFL is totally neglected in HEI sector, while most of the graduate students that may join corporate sector need to be well informed about the active role in shaping and promoting green organisation culture. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Investigating green transformational leadership behaviour through digital information literacy (meta-analysis approach)

Authors: Sadaqat Ali; Rahmat Ullah Shah; Mudassar Hassain; Uzma Syed Gillani; Imrab Shaheen; Aziz Javed; Naveed Saif

Addresses: Department of Management Sciences, NUML, Rawalpindi, Pakistan ' Institute of Education and Research, University of Science and Technology Bannu, KP, Pakistan ' Institute of Education and Research, University of Lakki Marwat, KP, Pakistan ' Institute of Education and Research, University of Science and Technology Bannu, KP, Pakistan ' Department of Management Sciences, University of Kotli, Pakistan ' IBA Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan ' IMS – Bannu University, Bannu, Pakistan

Abstract: With the growing concerns of environmental issues, researchers and academician tries to introduce the concept of green transformational leadership in various organisations setup. Still the concept of green transformational leadership (GTRFL) is in nascent stage and need to be defined in its true spectrum from various perspective. The current study investigated in detail about the use of GTRFL in various organisation setups since its emergence (2013). For this purpose, meta-analysis approach was applied to investigate the highest cited article, university of affiliation and the use of GTRFL in Higher education. Results depict that only one study (Odugbesan et al., 2022) investigate GTRFL in HEI sector while the highest citation for (Singh et al., 2020) are more than 1,129. Based on the findings it is concluded that the importance of GTRFL is totally neglected in HEI sector, while most of the graduate students that may join corporate sector need to be well informed about the active role in shaping and promoting green organisation culture.

Keywords: transformational leadership; green transformational leadership; academia; meta-analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2025.147268

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2025 Vol.18 No.4, pp.358 - 373

Accepted: 09 Jan 2024
Published online: 14 Jul 2025 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article

Title: Investigating green transformational leadership behaviour through digital information literacy (meta-analysis approach)

Keep up-to-date