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Hijjawi, G. (2021). The effeect of entrepreneurship on organizational excellence: The mediating role of visionary leadership.Management Science Letters , 11(1), 57-66.
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Xaba, M., & Malindi, M. (2010). Entrepreneurial orientation and practice: Three case examples of historically disadvan-taged primary schools. South African Journal of Education, 30(1), 75–89.
Zenk, S. N., Kraft, A. N., Jones, K. K., & Matthews, S. A. (2019). Convergent validity of an activity-space survey for use in health research. Health & Place, 56, 19–23.
Zhou, L., Zhao, S., Tian, F., Zhang, X., & Chen, S. (2018). Visionary leadership and employee creativity in China. Interna-tional Journal of Manpower. 39(1), 93-105.
Zhu, W., Chew, I. K., & Spangler, W. D. (2005). CEO transformational leadership and organizational outcomes: The me-diating role of human–capital-enhancing human resource management. The Leadership Quarterly, 16(1), 39-52.
Ahmad, S., Zulkurnain, N., & Khairushalimi, F. (2016). Assessing the validity and reliability of a measurement model in structural equation modeling (SEM). British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science, 15(3), 1–8.
Akbar, R. (2016). An Investigation of Determinants Global Entrepreneurship: Multi-Country Panel Studies. DeReMa Jurnal Manajemen, 11(1), 1–14.
Al-Hawary, S. I. S., & Al-Namlan, A. A. (2018). Impact of electronic human resources management on the organizational learning at the private hospitals in the Sate of Qatar. Global Journal of Management and Business Research: A Admin-istration and Management, 18(7), 1–11.
Al-Hawary, S. I. S., Batayneh, A. M. I., Mohammad, A. A. S., & Alsarahni, A. H. H. (2017). Supply chain flexibility as-pects and their impact on customers satisfaction of pharmaceutical industry in Jordan. International Journal of Busi-ness Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, 9(4), 326–343.
Al-Lozi, Musa Salameh, Almomani, Reham Zuhier Qasim and Al-Hawary, Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash (2017). Impact of talent management on achieving organizational excellence in Arab potash company in Jordan. Global Journal of Man-agement and Business Research: A Administration and Management,17(7), 15-25
Antonites, A. J., & Nonyane-Mathebula, B. T. (2012). Engineers as entrepreneurs: Enterpeneurial orientation of engineers in South Africa. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 23(1), 1–17.
ASQ (2015). What is Organizational Excellence?. [online] Available at: [Accessed 24 November 2017].
Bedoya, M. A., Alzate, B. A., & Giraldo, L. M. (2018). Corporate Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Impact on Managing Capabilities for Innovation. 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engi-neering and Technology (PICMET), 1–7.
Best, R.J. (2004). Market-Based Management: Strategies for Growing Customer Value and Profitability, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Dana, L.-P., & Ratten, V. (2017). International entrepreneurship in resource-rich landlocked African countries. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 15(4), 416–435.
Darling, R. J., & Nurmi, R. (1995). Downsizing the multinational firm: Key variables for excellence. Leadership & Or-ganizational Development Journal,16(5), 22-28.
Das, S. R., & Joshi, M. P. (2007). Process innovativeness in technology services organizations: Roles of differentiation strategy, operational autonomy and risk-taking propensity. Journal of Operations Management, 25(3), 643–660.
De Oliveira, M. J., Bernardes, R. C., Borini, F. M., & De Oliveira, A. B. (2016). Impact of entrepreneurial orientation on strategic alliances and the role of top management. Revista de Administração de Empresas, 56(3), 315–329.
Dess, G.G., & Lumpkin, G.T. (2001) Linking two dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation to firm performance: the moderating role of environment and industry lifecycle. Journal of Business Venturing, 16, 429-451.
Dhammika K. A. S. (2016). Visionary leadership and organizational commitment: The mediating effect of leader-member exchange (LMX). Wayamba Journal of Management, 4 (1), 1-10.
Dvouletý, O. (2017). Can policy makers count with positive impact of entrepreneurship on economic development of the Czech regions? Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 9(3), 286–299.
Dzomonda, O., Fatoki, O., & Oni, O. (2017). The impact of leadership styles on the entrepreneurial orientation of small and medium enterprises in South Africa. Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 9(2(J)), 104–113.
Eggers, F., Kraus, S., Hughes, M., Laraway, S. and Syncerksi, S. (2013) Implications of customer and entrepreneurial ori-entations for SME growth. Management Decision, 51(3), 524-546.
Fornell, C., & Larcker, D. (1981)., Evaluating structural equations models with unobservable variables and measurement error. Journal of Marketing Research 18(1), 39–50.
Frederick, H., O’Connor, A., & Kuratko, D. F. (2019). Entrepreneurship: Theory,process, and practice.
Gaddam, S. (2008). Identifying the relationship between behavioral motives and entrepreneurial intentions: An empirical study based on the perceptions of business management students. The Icfaian Journal of Management Research, 7(5), 35–55.
Gathungu, J. M., Aiko, D. M., & Machuki, V. N. (2014). Entrepeneurial orientation, networking, external environment, and firm performance: A critical literature review. European Scientific Journal, 10(7), 335–357.
Genc, E., Dayan, M., & Genc, O. F. (2019). The impact of SME internationalization on innovation: The mediating role of market and entrepreneurial orientation. Industrial Marketing Management, 82, 253–264.
Golmohammadi, M., Ghorbani, A., & Feyzi, M. (2016). The effect of job attitudes and organizational identity in organiza-tional excellence of employees (Case Study: Staff of Department of Natural Resources and Watershed of Ardabil prov-ince). International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS) ISSN 2356-5926, 1(1), 1281-1288.
Hadi, A. A., Abdullah, H., & Atshan, N. (2019). Effect of organisational integrity and leadership behaviour on organisa-tional excellence. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 27(4), 972-985.
Haider, S. H., Asad, M., & Fatima, M. (2017). Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance of Manufacturing Sector Small and Medium Scale Enterprises of Punjab Pakistan. European Business & Management, 3(2), 21–28.
Hair, J. F., Hult, G. T. M., Ringle, C. M., & Sarstedt, M. (2017). A primer on partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) (Second edition). SAGE.
Karim, M. S. A. (2016). Entrepreneurship Education in an Engineering Curriculum. Procedia Economics and Finance, 35, 379–387.
Kearney, E., Shemla, M., van Knippenberg, D., & Scholz, F. A. (2019). A paradox perspective on the interactive effects of visionary and empowering leadership. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 155, 20-30.
Kotler, P. (2003). A Framework for Marketing Management, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Mahalli, A. (2013). Applying the EFQM model in performance measuring of organization: Department of Management, Islamic Azad University, Iran. Standard Research Journal of Business Management,1(1), 41-51.
Northouse, P.G. (2013), Leadership Theory and Practice, 6th ed., Sage publications, CA.
Nunnally, J. C., & Bernstein, I. H. (1994). The theory of measurement error. Psychometric Theory, 3, 209-247.
Olannye, A. P., & Eromafuru, E. (2016). The dimension of entrepreneurial marketing on the performance of fast food res-taurants in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria. Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences, 7(3), 137–146.
Park, J. (2017). Tolerance intervals from ridge regression in the presence of multicollinearity and high dimension. Statis-tics & Probability Letters, 121, 128–135.
Salamzadeh, A., Tajpour, M., & Hosseini, E. (2019). Corporate entrepreneurship in University of Tehran: Does human re-sources management matter. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 10(3), 276.
Samawi, G. A., Abu-Tayeh, B. K., Yosef, F., Madanat, M., & Al-Qatawneh, M. I. (2018). Relation between total quality management practices and business excellence: evidence from private service firms in Jordan. International Review of Management and Marketing, 8(1), 28-35.
Shelton, C. D., J., & Walker, W. (2002). Foundations of organizational excellence. Leadership Values, Strategies and Skills LTA, 1(2), 46-63.
Shepherd, D. A., & Wiklund, J. (2020). Simple rules, templates, and heuristics! An attempt to deconstruct the craft of writing an entrepreneurship Paper. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(3), 371–390.
Shi, D., Lee, T., & Maydeu-Olivares, A. (2019). Understanding the model size effect on SEM Fit Indices. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 79(2), 310–334.
Sozuer, A., Altuntas, G., & Semercioz, F. (2017). International entrepreneurship of small firms and their export market performance. European Journal of International Management, 11(3), 365.
Sung, K.-S., Yi, Y. G., & Shin, H.-I. (2019). Reliability and validity of knee extensor strength measurements using a port-able dynamometer anchoring system in a supine position. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 20(1), 1–8.
Taylor, C. M., Cornelius, C. J. & Colvin, K. (2013). Visionary leadership and its relationship to organizational effective-ness. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 35(6), 566-583.
Thompson, C. G., Kim, R. S., Aloe, A. M., & Becker, B. J. (2017). Extracting the variance inflation factor and other multi-collinearity diagnostics from typical regression results. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 39(2), 81–90.
Webster, M., (2016). Organizational Excellence. So what is organizational excellence.
Wing, R.L. (1988). The Art of Strategy: A New Translation of Sun Tzu’s Classic the Art of War, New York: Doubleday.
Xaba, M., & Malindi, M. (2010). Entrepreneurial orientation and practice: Three case examples of historically disadvan-taged primary schools. South African Journal of Education, 30(1), 75–89.
Zenk, S. N., Kraft, A. N., Jones, K. K., & Matthews, S. A. (2019). Convergent validity of an activity-space survey for use in health research. Health & Place, 56, 19–23.
Zhou, L., Zhao, S., Tian, F., Zhang, X., & Chen, S. (2018). Visionary leadership and employee creativity in China. Interna-tional Journal of Manpower. 39(1), 93-105.
Zhu, W., Chew, I. K., & Spangler, W. D. (2005). CEO transformational leadership and organizational outcomes: The me-diating role of human–capital-enhancing human resource management. The Leadership Quarterly, 16(1), 39-52.