Reinforcement Innovative Behavior as an Outcome of Entrepreneurial Competencies: From the Perspectives of Librarianship Landscape

摘要

This paper identifies recognizing opportunity and the outcomes measured as innovative behavior practiced in academic libraries. By using a literature review, purposive sampling, multiple case studies and interviews it was discovered that the most relevant antecedents of recognizingopportunities for this study are prior knowledge and experience, self-awareness and social network. These antecedents influence academic librarians’ innovative behavior which was evaluated based on idea generation, idea championing and idea application. This paper explores recognizingopportunity and innovative behavior in Malaysian higher education sector.