Entrepreneurial Leadership Capabilities and Innovativeness in Academic Libraries: A Research Model
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Entrepreneurial leadership offers an approach for library leader to be envisage, opportunistic, visionaries and influentials in facing the transformation of an academic libraries due to fiscal constraints and pressure to be distinctive. This conceptual paper aims to investigate the combined effects dimensions of entrepreneurial leadership capabilities on innovativeness in academic libraries. The study also addresses the issue of organizational intervention on the relationship. The Leader Member Exchange (LMX) theory of the leadership is use as the underpinning theory, as guidance and to support the research model consists of six major domain construct; (1) strategic factor, (2) communicative factor, (3) personal factor, (4) motivational factor, (5) moderator, (6) innovativeness in academic library. This study is a first step for library managers to anticipate entrepreneurial leadership and will serve as guidelines for the policy makers of higher learning institutions to design and provide future support system for the academic library.
Authors and Affiliations
Abdul Ismail Mohd Jawi, Tengku Adil Tengku Izhar
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- DOI 10.6007/IJARBSS/v6-i1/1974
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