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    Entrepreneurship Orientation and Business Performance: Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Hambanthota District, Sri Lanka
    (University of Kelaniya, 2012) Gamage, B.N.
    Among the industrial sectors in Sri Lanka, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the country have great potential to generate economic benefits and accounts for about 70% of all industrial establishments, 30% of the total industrial output and 3% of employment. This study investigated the degree of Entrepreneurship Orientation (EO) of fifty seven manufacturing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Hambanthota District, Sri Lanka (HDSL) and the effects of EO dimensions including proactiveness, innovativeness, and risk taking to Business Performance (BP). Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used as the main instruments for data collection during the period from March-April, 2012. Qualitative and quantitative techniques were applied for data analysis. Simple Linear Regression analyzed the relationship between EO and business performance. Multiple regression analyses were employed to identify the relationship among the EO dimensions and BP variables with which degree of EO of SMEs was determined by the mean value and based on the result of Pearson correlation analysis the significance of the relationship among variables was established. Reliability analysis ensured the internal consistency and reliability of measures. Cronbach’s alpha was calculated to confirm the reliability of constructs. Findings showed about 52% of SMEs in HDSL represented moderate level of EO. Proactiveness, innovativeness, risk taking and overall EO were significantly correlated with market share growth. Results further indicated there were positive correlations among proactiveness and EO with BP.
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    Small and medium enterprises and development strategies: a lesson from ASEAN
    (Culture, Globalization and the Developing World, 2nd ICSS, 2013) Gamage, B.N.
    Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make up more than 80% of all businesses in Sri Lanka, and account for about 35% of employment and about 20% of total industrial value addition.This important sector has a crucial role to play in driving sustainable development and supporting the stability of the post conflict economy. SMEs are the backbone of the economies of the ASEAN member states and invariably account for more than 96% of all enterprises and 50% to 85% of domestic employment. The contribution of SMEs to GDP is between 30% and 53% and the contribution of SMEs to exports is between 19% and 31%. Their contribution to value added, employment and export are quite significant in ASEAN. In short, SMEs contribute to generating more employment, promoting more balanced growth of different regions in country, and exhibiting more innovation and dynamics. The study evaluates the contribution of regional institutional bodies such as SAARC and BIMSTEC to lift up this important sector as mean of economic growth strategy. Stimulating the growth of SMEs and mobilizing their unique strengths needs to be a key element of Sri Lanka?s development strategy. The study also seeks to identify crucial elements in Thailand?s SMEs Promotion Plan (2007-2011) and the ASEAN Policy Blueprint for the ASEAN SME Development Decade 2002-2012 and develop its own comprehensive, yet forward-looking agenda for SME development in Sri Lanka.
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    Women Entrepreneurship in Post conflict Societies: Reference to Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka
    (Reviewing International Encounters 2015, Research Center for Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Gamage, B.N.
    The main purpose of this research is to contribute knowledge about women entrepreneurs in war ridden areas with special focus on North-East province. This research intends to analyze women entrepreneurs‟ business orientation, types of entrepreneurial ventures created and their motivations for business ownership in a resource constrained post war environment. Resource constrained post war environment is defined as a resource scarcity environment that involve inadequacy/shortages of necessary skills, access to finance and physical infrastructure, poor knowledge on technology and inadequate government support base. Further, this research will provide supportive policies and programmes for the women entrepreneurs in North-East province, and will act as reference for government policy makers, who are responsible for post war socio-economic development. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used to analyze data. Multiple regression analysis is used to determine the relationship among independent variables and dependent variable. The independent variables are entrepreneurial orientation (innovativeness, risk taking and proactiveness), types of entrepreneurial ventures created and motivation for business ownership. The dependent variable is the ability to overcome post war resource constrained environment. This study concentrated on the determination of the strength of relationship between the independent and the dependent variables. Studying the nature of entrepreneurial styles of conflict ridden areas, which portrays lesser-heard characteristics of being members of post war communities and the strategy used by these women entrepreneurs would be slightly different and may differ from the mainstream entrepreneurial communities in Sri Lanka