Abstract

The resilience of hospitality businesses has received scholarly attention due to the role the businesses
play in the economic development of every country. Previous studies on the resilience of hospitality
businesses have not examined how sustainable leadership could enhance the resilience consciousness
of hospitality businesses, including the role that organisational culture could play. It was these gaps that
necessitated this investigation. Thus, this study examined the moderating role of organisational culture
on the relationship between sustainable leadership and business resilience in the hospitality industry.
The study approach was quantitative, which warranted the use of nomothetic means to collect and
analyse data. The population of the study was ve hundred and twenty (520) hotel managers, HR
o cers, front desk o cers, housekeepers, and accountants drawn from ten (10) four-star hotels in
southeastern Nigeria. A sample size of two hundred and twenty-two (222) was determined with the
Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula from the study population. ADANCO 2.3.1 was used to analyse the
formulated research hypotheses. The results revealed that sustainable leadership has a positive and
signi cant relationship with business resilience. Additionally, it was discovered that organizational
culture enhances the relationship between the constructs. The novelty of this investigation lies in the
moderating role of organisational culture in the relationship between sustainable leadership and
business resilience in the hospitality industry.