This study examines the role of school cooperative managers’ leadership in fostering students’ entrepreneurial development through effective cooperative management. The cooperative serves as a practical learning medium for students to manage businesses, make decisions, and develop creativity, despite facing challenges such as limited competencies, capital, participation, and governance. Leadership plays a strategic role in aligning organizational goals, building an entrepreneurial culture, and creating a collaborative environment through appropriate styles such as democratic, transformational, and servant leadership. This research employs a qualitative approach using library research and finds that managerial leadership is essential in formulating vision, developing work programs, and optimizing cooperatives as sustainable entrepreneurship laboratories.
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