Recent Development on Entrepreneurial Leadership Capabilities and Innovativeness in Academic Libraries: A Review and Directions for Future Research

Entrepreneurial leadership offers an approach for library leader to be envisage, opportunistic, visionaries and influentials in facing the academic libraries transformation due to fiscal constraints and pressure to be distinctive. This paper aims to address issues related to the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership capabilities and academic library innovativeness by looking at the gaps from the previous studies. The Leader Member Exchange (LMX) theory of the leadership is use as the underpinning theory, as guidance and to support the conceptual framework and therefore focused on the dimensions of entrepreneurial leadership capabilities (strategic, communicative, personal and motivational) as factors that could explain innovativeness in academic libraries. This review is a first step for library managers to anticipate entrepreneurial leadership, to transform their organizations to meet the changing information and service needs of users, even while under fiscal constraints.