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COVID-19 Crisis and Resilience Measures: Evidence from Sri Lankan SmallScale Entrepreneurs
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2021) Samarasinghe, N.V.H.H.; Hennayaka, J.S.; Disanayaka, D.M.P.P.; Gamage, U.C.; Weligodapola, M.; Shamila, P.
A more than one year after the COVID-19 pandemic affected the national and global economies. In Sri Lanka, as a developing country, this situation highly impacts on small-scale entrepreneurs. This study explores the solutions to provide efficient benefits for small-scale entrepreneurs who are going through a pandemic crisis. To survive unpredictable global pandemic situations, small-scale businesses have advocated new methods and strategies to continue business operations by identifying both threats and opportunities of this crisis. The study aims to determine the impact of business resilience planning and investigate the resilience measures to cope with the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study philosophy was positivism and conducted a deductive research approach that used a survey strategy with a cross-sectional time horizon. An online questionnaire-based survey with a 7-point Likert scale used to collect data from a sample of 107 small-scale entrepreneurs. This study has used quota sampling as a sampling method. The result demonstrates how business resilience impact mitigates the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. The findings indicated a significant impact on business resilience from marketing strategies and employee arrangements because its important values are less than 0.05, and Beta values amount to 0.279 and 0.143, respectively. This study offers several contributions to researchers and extends the literature to provide a comprehensive focus for the country's economy and accelerate the up-skilling of small-scale entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka. This would be an approach for the government to identify potential business trends to improve small businesses easily.
Gender based digital divide in the labour market in Sri Lanka
(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Weligodapola, M.
Impact of Lifelong-Learning Mindset on Career Success of the Accounting and Finance Professionals
(Department of Marketing Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2021) Wijenayake, R.W.A.V.A.; Fernando, P.M.R.N; Nilesh, S.; Diddeniya, M.D.G.M.S.; Weligodapola, M.; Shamila, P.
The study is designed to examine the impact of lifelong learning mindset on the career success of accounting and finance professionals in Western province of Sri Lanka as there are very few studies conducted for the field of accounting and finance in Sri Lankan context. And the research problem stated how the lifelong learning mindset impact on the career success of accounting and finance professionals. The main objective of this study is to identify how the Lifelong- learning Mind-set impact on Career Success of the accounting and finance professionals. The lifelong learning mindset is the desire to learn new things and the curiosity, resilience and the strategic thinking are the selected constructs to measure the life-long learning mind-set. Career success refers to certain objectives and emotional measures of improvement in his/her work life. The related variables of career success measured through the number of promotions that a has granted in his work life.Positivism is the research paradigm, and the deductive approach is involved as this study relies on testing an existing theory. To conduct the study, the accounting and finance professionals in western province in Sri Lanka had selected because most reputed international, local companies and specifically, headquarters of most of the companies are in western province. The responses cannot collect from the whole population. Therefore, this study used simple random sampling method and sample size is 120.Therefore, to identify the impact 5-point Likert scales is used to perform this quantitative data. Required data gathered through an online questionnaire and the final outputs of the study will offer certain important recommendations to several parties such as to universities, undergraduates, companies and to the policy makers to improve, help mentally and financially and motivate the students and the employees to continue their studies without ceasing after completion of their degree.A regression analysis was conduct in performing the data analysis because the study investigates the influence from Lifelong- learning Mindset on Career Success of the Accounting and Finance Professionals. In conducting the analysis, a 95% of confidence level is considered so the significant rate greater than. 0.05 rejected because according to the 95% confidence level those are insignificant. The findings of the regression were revealed there is a positive relationship between curiosity and career success. Further, it divulged curiosity indicted the positive effect on career success from its standardized coefficient Beta value of 0.539. Therefore, curiosity in lifelong learning mind-set impacting among accounting and financial professional in their career success.
Role of Outsourcing and Collaboration in Ensuring Supply Chain Resilience of Sri Lankan SMEs during COVID-19 Outbreak
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2021) Manathunge, K.A.D.N.; Samaraweera, V.A.; Withanage, W.J.H.; Karunarathna, W.A.S.N.; Weligodapola, M.; Madhavika, W.D.N.
The global spread of the novel coronavirus has had a devastating impact on supply chains around the world. Thus, the core notion of supply chain resilience is of increasing interest to organizations. This is especially true for Small and Medium Enterprises as the amount of uncertainty that is prevalent in modern-day business has brought new challenges in their quest to be successful. Nevertheless, a preliminary prerequisite for improved supply chain resilience is an understanding of the network that connects the business. Realizing this scenario, the present study endeavors to explore the influence of outsourcing and collaboration on supply chain resilience of SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Sri Lankan context. Hence, a survey research design was undertaken by sourcing primary data through a self- administered questionnaire using a sample of 75 SMEs. The variables were statistically analyzed using regression techniques and correlation analysis. The study revealed that there is a statistically significant relationship as well as a positive impact between outsourcing and collaboration on supply chain resilience. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the present study is one of the first papers to explore the interrelationship existing between outsourcing and collaboration on SME supply chain resilience. The findings are sure to provide novel insights into the phenomenon of supply chain resilience as the study provides insight in terms of the impact of both outsourcing and collaboration functions on SME supply chain resilience during adverse times.