Journal of Public Value and Administration Insights (JPVAI) 2(4); 1-5 Copyright © 2019 Journal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1 Journal of Public Value and Administration Insights (JPVAI) ISSN:2663-9181 www.readersinsight.net/jpvai Sustainable Leadership Enhance Innovation A Systematic Review of Past Decade Aniqa Haroon *1 , Abdul Sami 2 , Sana Rehman 3 , Huma Fahad 4 , Asmara Irfan 5 1 Faculty of Mnanagement Science, National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan 2 Department of Management Sciences, University of Jhang, Jhang, Pakistan 3 Faculty of Mnagement Science,National Textile Univerity, Fiasalabad, Pakistan 4 Department of Management Sciences, University of Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan 5 Azman Hashim International Business School, University of Tecknologi Malaysia, Malaysia * Corresponding author: aniqahansari@gmail.com The globalization has made it manadory for the industries to introduce novel ideas in the products and services that they offer, and that is due to the rapidly increasing competition. For this prevaling innovation, it is very important for the management to adopt the right type of leadership. A managerial perception having the aim of producing constant and better results and reducing turnover and absenteeism of employees and last but not the least hastening the inventions and new creations, is called sustainable leadership. The purpose of this review is to facilitate the researchers by providing an authentic relationship that exits between the sustainable leadership and innovation that is stated after studying 27 articles. This study comprises a review of literature encompassing past 9 years, this research involves and provides many pieces of guidance for researchers and leaders. ARTICLE INFORMATION Received: 16 October 2019 Revised: 10 December 2019 Accepted: 30 December 2019 DOI: 10.31580/jpvai.v2i4.1151 Keywords: Sustainable Leadership; Innovation; Systematic Literature Review; Theories © Readers Insight Publication INTRODUCTION International industry environment has been transmuted into a progressively more complicated, ambiguous and diversified entity because of the globalization. It is an excessive pressure for multinational companies to improve their abilities just not to adapt to the environmental changes but also to keep up with it otherwise they may get crushed by the external forces. About 20% to 50% of organizations performances differ from each other relating to a same sector of an industry. However, although in-depth studies have been conducted to determine what aspects of industry have direct impact on the prevailing culture but unfortunately, what type of leadership deeds are suitable for the process of innovation to develop in the culture. Innovation is a foundation of organizational success (C.Dunne, R.Aaron, C.McDowell, J.Urban, & R.Geho, 2016). This means that if an organization continues to work in a traditional way and do not change its actions according to the necessities, it cannot survive in this competitive environment. Therefore, they need to find new and novel ideas to perform in order to stand out and make a firm place in this strong unending competition (Ebrahimi, Moosavi, & Chirani, 2016). Organizations must find new opportunities to grow and avail competitive advantage by adopting innovative ways to perform tasks efficient enough to stand out. The best thing that a leader can do to introduce innovation is to guarantee that every employee gets to do challenging work that avoids boredom and utilizes their capabilities and skills at fullest (Dodge et al., 2017). If leaders focus only on the daily routine and operations and takes innovation process as a choice, they are less likely to indulge in innovation and thus innovation process is repressed and ultimately it causes failure of innovation process. This is where the role of strategic sustainable leadership comes. It helps organization to manage short-term as well as long-term necessities of the company in the most efficient way for example it will help managers to carry out the process of innovation simultaneously with operational tasks at hand (Semuel, Siagian, & Octavia, 2017). Therefore, it is utmost important for the firms to accomplish in effect and proficient technological innovation that is steered by the right type of leadership behavior. As many researchers have concluded that employees are the main asset of the organization and the efficiency and effectiveness of any firm is in the hands of its workforce therefore it is very important to provide attention to their innovative behavior. An environment that is favorable for the prevalence of creativity to inspire the innovativeness of the employees and technology is very significant for this era’s industry (X. Li and Zheng, 2014; Chang-yen Tsai, Horng, Liu and Hu, 2015). By maintaining appropriate work environment, organizations can promote the behavior of creativity and increased efforts can be enhanced by motivating the employees the right way (Amabile, Teresa M., 1999). Literature Review Sustainable Leadership Leadership has been studied in many areas, including psychology and education, military, administration, medical care, and nursing and particularly in business. For a motivating and facilitating environment to influence the employee’s creativity and other advantageous behaviors on job, leadership has been suggested consistently (Rehman, Sami, Haroon, & Irfan, 2019; Park, Kim, Joo, & Yoon, 2017; Yang Chen, Guiyao Tang, Jiafei Jin, Qinghong Xie, 2014). A managerial perception having the aim of producing constant and better results and reducing turnover and absenteeism of employees and last but not the least hastening the inventions and new creations,