Browsing by Author "Edirisinghe, S.D."

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Effect of Open Innovation on Firm Performance in Sri Lankan Manufacturing Sector: With Innovative Capability and Environmental Turbulence
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2021) Dilrukshi, M.G.M.; Wickramasinghe, C.N.; Edirisinghe, S.D.
Open innovation is about knowledge flows. It helps to achieve sustainable competitive advantages through enhancing firm performance. However, organizations in the Sri Lankan manufacturing sector tend to allocate resources on research and development, firm performance does not improve compared to the investment. Hence this study suggests that firm performance can be increased through open innovation initiatives. But external knowledge cannot be enhanced firm performance automatically. Thus, this study proposes that innovative capability may improve the relationship between open innovation and firm performance. Open innovation approaches are most suitable for dynamic environments. Hence this study suggests that environmental turbulence may strengthen the relationship between open innovation and innovative capability to uplift the firm performance. Accordingly, this study aims to develop an integrated model of open innovation and firm performance with the mediating effect of innovative capability and the moderating effect of environmental turbulence. As a research approach, subjectivism as the ontological position, positivist as the epistemological position, quantitative approach as the methodology and survey as the method will be used. The population will be the senior managers in the research and development department in the manufacturing industries in Sri Lanka. The study will utilize a sample of 200 senior managers based on simple random sampling. The sample frame will be the senior managers in the top performing 50 manufacturing organizations as per the rankings of the Export Development Board in Sri Lanka. For analyzing the impacts predicted in the model, Structural Equation Model will be used.
Emerging Economies and Small and Medium Industries: Challenges in the process of Globalization
(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Edirisinghe, S.D.
Focus of this paper is to investigate export and import sector contribution as means of the SMIs market internationalization in emerging economies with the process of globalization. And explain how small businesses are important in current business world. Thetermemerging economies has explored since 1990s in the world economy.Around hundred and fifty six emerging economies in various stages of development is contributing to the international business in the world today.Some of these economies are rapidly emerging on the global stage. Among them, Argentina, Brazil,Indonesia, Turkey,Thailand,South Korea, Russia, Poland are very important in the internationalization phenomena.Globalization and business opportunities are take place among developing economies as well as emerging economies.The current era of globalization originated in the aftermath of world war second when major nations committed to global trade and investment.Most of the countries in the world today realized that joining the world economy is a must.As the countries started to emerge as new actors in the world economy 20% of its output contribute to the global GDP at present while western economies contribute approximately 80% to world GDP. Over the years emerging economies has involved considerable amount of transactions in the international trade and more prominently service sector has expanded within the globalization situation.
Entrepreneurial inclination and entrepreneurial traits: a study of students at university of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Nimeshi, G.K.S.; Edirisinghe, S.D.
An exploration into deputy principal role in the Colombo district national schools in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2011) Kasturiarachchi, C.; Edirisinghe, S.D.
The role of the deputy principal in the national schools in Sri Lanka is one that has attracted much less research interest compared to the role of the principal. The intention of this study is to explore the role of the deputy principal in the Colombo district national schools in Sri Lanka. Three research questions were formulated, namely what are the roles and responsibilities of the deputy principal in the national schools, what is the satisfaction experienced by them in their current roles and lastly, what are the challenges faced in performing their leadership role as a deputy principal in the school. A qualitative methodological approach was undertaken encompassing the methods of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Five national schools were purposively selected from the Colombo district. Five principals and ten deputy principals participated in this case study, providing information. The findings revealed that the role was primarily concerned with managerial and administrative tasks and lacked clear definition in schools. Most of the deputy principals have not been provided autonomy and sufficient decision making power to perform their role. However, they play their role as administrative managers rather than instructional leaders. Since they face difficulties in decision making and performing their role, majority of participants in the study reported that deputy principals are satisfied in their role. Majority of the principals suggested that deputy principals in their schools do not have sufficient leadership or management training to carry out their role in the school effectively. The conclusions from this research point to concerns about the time to take on fuller leadership roles in national schools due to conflicts with other more ordinary tasks. Recommendations at school level point to the need for a clearer definition of the role and possible restructuring of the role to leverage more time to lead as instructional leader in schools. Recommendations at a system level suggest advocating a set of professional leadership standards for the deputy principal in the secondary school.
Exploring Perceived Impact of Tourism on Regional Development in Southern Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2014) Edirisinghe, S.D.
Tourism is emerging as promising phenomena for countries in solving critical economic problems. By tourism, Sri Lanka too can keep trust on sustainable development. Especially to the rural coast line natives can improve their lives through tourism. Scholars define that rural tourism as an activity that includes farm tourism and agro-tourism, campsites, lodges, safari drives, craft markets, cultural displays, adventure sports, walking trails, heritage sites, musical events and any other tourist activity taking place in a rural area. But tourism generates positive and negative impact on the natives and culture. Main research problem of this study is “What are the existing situation of socio economic impact on Southern coastline tourism”. More over the study explore the perceived impact of tourism on southern community in Sri Lanka by taking 100 sample units of Southern coastal line covering Weligama,Matara and Devinuwara. For understanding phenomena of interests researcher used descriptive analytical technique and stratified random sampling technique. Data collecting instrument was selfadministered questionnaire and quantitative analytical technique employed. The findings of this study clearly show that the locals of these coastal areas are supportive to tourism and that negative socio-cultural impacts on the local community have been relatively minimal. But it is important to control and reduce the negative impacts and to enhance the well-being of locals through tourism.
Factors Affecting the Enterprise Recourse Planning (ERP) Systems on Organizational Performance
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Roshantha, L.M.D.; Edirisinghe, S.D.
Technology has become great connectors of all societies and countless platform for the people. As technology becomes more powerful, more and more capabilities are merged. Therefore people do more new forms of value to create, new ways to connect people, deliver capabilities. ERP systems are sophisticated information technologies that enable companies to gain noticeable advantages over their rivals. However, these systems are neither a remedy to competition, nor a medium guaranteeing success. During the last decade controversial discussion opened and a lot of criticism and constructive agreement came out on decision –making benefits from ERP systems. Even though a lot of attention has been paid to the decision-making benefits of ERP systems in practice, there is limited amount of empirical research that explores the nature of end-user satisfaction and perceived organizational performance with ERP systems especially in Sri Lankan context. Therefore examining the factors that constitute ERP users’ satisfaction and to explore whether ERP users varies among the different users are of timely importance. The purpose of this research paper is to present the synthesized theoretical and empirical literature to help in the development of propositions and suggestions of a research agenda on the acceptance of ERP systems and investigate their link with organizational performance. Further the paper develops the technology acceptance model (TAM) to synthesize relevant literature and to develop propositions for future research agendas. A quantitative approach will be employed in the data analysis and multi-stage stratified sampling method will be used to select the respondents of ERP implemented companies. This study will use the descriptive statistical techniques and the structural equation method as the statistical techniques. Additionally, questionnaire and interview methods will be utilized as data collecting instruments.
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Small Businesses’ Performance
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Nimeshi, G.K.S.; Edirisinghe, S.D.
For each country entrepreneurial venture segment is considered as a major important factor of productivity, employment and economic growth. A developing country like Sri Lanka requires entrepreneurs to stimulate the economy. However, given the Sri Lankan context, most of Sri Lankan entrepreneurs’ failure is due to lack of entrepreneurship education. While the number of entrepreneurship education programs is growing, their impact is under researched and studies paint an unclear picture of the impact of entrepreneurship education. Therefore this research study aims to contribute to the understanding of the impact of entrepreneurship education on the firm’s performance. According to the literature, firm performance can be measured by using financial and non-financial factors. In this study, three measures were identified under the financial factors according to past literature. Namely profit growth, sales growth, and return on investment. Additionally non-financial performance is measured by using factors such as, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and owner satisfaction. The study also tests how this relationship varies with moderator variable, namely, gender. The study will be conducted in Sri Lankan context in Gampaha district. Proportionate random sampling technique will be used to select the sample of 150 small firms. A self-administered questionnaire will be used in this study as the research instrument. Both descriptive and inferential analytical tools will be used to analyze the data. The study will provide insight into the Sri Lankan context and it will contribute to understanding the importance of entrepreneurship education to owners of small firms.
Performance inclusion in Sri Lanka’s trade with Developing Countries
(Research Symposium 2009 - Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2009) Edirisinghe, S.D.
International trade has been developed with the growth of the civilization as part of the human life. It is concerned with business transactions among the citizens of different nations. Although the international trade and globalization offer the world community more benefits, there also appear to have negative consequences ,particularly for low income countries. And developing countries differ widely among themselves. Due to the uneven distribution of the costs and benefits and as the result of the development of the trade and globalization ,developing countries are needed to find out new business partners. This study is focused on investigating performance of trade between Sri Lanka and other developing countries within the period 1977-2007(after introducing trade liberalization policies in Sri Lanka).Both deductive and inductive methods were used to analyze the data. Mainly five trading partners were demonstrated concurrently to the study and among them the highest place in the Sri Lanka’s trade was recorded by the group of Middle East countries within the considering time period. Western Hemisphere countries and African countries have recorded second and third place respectively. According to the study the most least contribution has been given in the overall trade was the U.S.S.R and Eastern European countries. Furthermore, study elicited the potential trade avenues and reflected rely on the several trading partners of the economy , after the liberalization . There can be seen a soaring transaction of trade among the developing countries after the period 1977 and it is obviously focal in the Middle East countries.
Prospects of trade between Sri Lanka and Middle East countries
(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Edirisinghe, S.D.
Review of Changes in Pattern of Trade from Colonial Period to Post -Independence Era
(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Edirisinghe, S.D.
The Sri Lankan economic system was drastically changed from a closed feudal agrarian subsistence economic system to a dual economy comprising a plantation sector and a backward subsistence agrarian sector under the British Colonial rule. The economy changed in this way was later branded as an export economy. An export economy is defined as one with not merely a high ratio of imports & exports to national income but one in which all the important macro economic variable such as government revenue & expenditure, private investment, import & national income itself possess strong functional dependence upon the level of exports receipts.(Snodgrass: 1966). But, this economy became favorable only in limited boom periods. All other times this economic system has not been in favor of the economy. Therefore, attempts were made even during the British colonial period to change this trade pattern, first, by trying to diversify the economy through industrialization .. But, industrialization could not make any impact on changing this pattern of trade. Even by obtaining the independence in 1948 and then, by following more government interventionist policies starting from 1956 this trade pattern could not be changed. For example, by 1959,90% of export income of the country came through the exports of few primary commodities. Even the situation prevailing by 1977 was not much different from that of the end of the 1950s. However, economic reforms made in 1977 onwards have made a considerable impact on. changing the trade pattern in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, Sri Lanka's export structure has been changed from more dominant situations of primary export earnings to the earnings of manufacturing products & the earnings of the migrant employees. However, the manufacturing exports are concerned they are concentrated on low value added garments exports. Therefore, this study reveals that primary exports still plays a major role in deciding the country's economic growth. As such, this study highlights that the trade pattern emerged during the colonial period can be still seen in the economy.
A study on trade relations between Sri Lanka and oil producing Middle East countries 1970-2000
(2003) Edirisinghe, S.D.